misallocation
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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
Some analysts warn that AI-related misallocation of capital could exceed $1 trillion, but they’re ultimately measuring the wrong thing.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 4, 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
The process of transition informed us that markets, left to their own devices, unregulated and unharnessed, yield market failures, anomies, crime and the misallocation of economic resources.
From The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism by Vaknin, Samuel
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