misallocation
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misallocations
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Also read: Big Tech’s $700 billion spending on AI this year is called the ‘greatest capital misallocation in history’
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
We tolerate misallocation because we are purchasing something other than objects: reassurance, attention, belonging—a ritualized way of saying you matter to me and I am willing to incur a cost to prove it.
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
It leads to the misallocation of economic resources and distorts competition.
From Crime and Corruption by Vaknin, Samuel
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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