misallocation
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misallocations
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“The greatest risks to look out for the equities from here is cost inflation, capital misallocation, or expropriation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 3, 2026
While capital misallocation is inevitable and there will be winners and losers, the long-term innovation cycle remains intact.
From Barron's ● Nov. 15, 2025
Through bureaucratic incompetence, capital misallocation, and decades of pretending infrastructure would magically fix itself.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2025
Cities are often portrayed as unfriendly to families because of the shortage of family-sized units, but this data suggests that the problem may be more with a misallocation of those units than with their number.
From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2024
Their impact is to slow down the economic process through disinformation and the resulting misallocation of resources.
From After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin
Schumpeter’s fellow Austrian Ludwig von Mises noted that credit expansions and booms lead to misallocations of cash.
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 11, 2011
The Austrian School of economics, of which Mises is the modern father, called such misallocations “malinvestment and overconsumption.”
From BusinessWeek ● Nov. 11, 2011
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