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- verb To
invest incorrectly or unwisely
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Examples
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"malinvest" labor and capital and recessions are necessary to "clean out" these malinvestments.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009
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Decades of affordable housing policies including CRA created severe malinvest in the nation's housing stock.
Chip Hanlon: Goldman Basher Poizner Dumped Tech on You at the Market Top 2010
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Decades of affordable housing policies including CRA created severe malinvest in the nation's housing stock.
Chip Hanlon: Goldman Basher Poizner Dumped Tech on You at the Market Top Chip Hanlon 2010
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After money supply increases by way of credit expansion, businesses malinvest by "overinvesting in higher-stage and durable production processes," Rothbard explained in Real-estate developers by and large use debt financing every step of the way from when they buy the land to when they start construction.
LewRockwell.com 2009
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Companies represented in the Dow will continue to malinvest and miss their targets.
blog maverick 2008
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