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- noun Plural form of
malinvestment .
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Examples
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Yet there is not the slightest hint that the author has considered the possibility that the origin of these "excesses" -- what Austrians call malinvestments -- is purely economic and avoidable.
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It stimulates over-consumption at the expense of viable capital formation, and it stimulates or maintains malinvestments at the expense of viable capital projects.
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In coming months this new standard will force companies to expose all of their malinvestments and the increase in reported write offs will be absolutely huge in comparison to the losses they have already admitted.
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When the malinvestments caused by credit injection start becoming apparent, that triggers the doubt about the validity of the signals being sent.
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Eventually this reality caught up with the malinvestments, and the house of cards crashed.
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In his latest call, he makes reference to Gold, to western central bank sales, and of the significant global movement towards government run economies which will result in increased overheads caused by malinvestments resulting from political dogma, slower growth and higher unemployment.
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The solution is to let prices fall until they correctly signal the boom's malinvestments.
Finance as a Network, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Monetary inflation counterfeits the signs of a boom and that causes investors, manufacturers, etc. to build excess capacity or other malinvestments.
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In coming months this new standard will force companies to expose all of their malinvestments and the increase in reported write offs will be absolutely huge in comparison to the losses they have already admitted.
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Rothbard contends that the Great Depression was brought about by the malinvestments (like our housing bubble) financed by the inflationary monetary expansion created by the Federal Reserve Board.
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