misallocation
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Read on: Big Tech’s $700 billion spending on AI this year is called the ‘greatest capital misallocation in history’
From MarketWatch • May 8, 2026
“There is just massive misallocation that runs through the economy in multiple dimensions,” said Loren Brandt, an economist at the University of Toronto.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
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
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 Vaknin, Samuel
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