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- verb Present participle of
misallocate .
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Examples
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We need to "get the housing inductry going again," where "going again" means "massively misallocating resources and capital to homes in which no one wants to live, ever."
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We need to "get the housing inductry going again," where "going again" means "massively misallocating resources and capital to homes in which no one wants to live, ever."
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads Jason Linkins 2010
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There is probably some truth in what they say - we have been misallocating resources these last 10 years due to the distorted way consumers have been getting credit.
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We need to "get the housing inductry going again," where "going again" means "massively misallocating resources and capital to homes in which no one wants to live, ever."
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Nor was there any recognition that such games damage the U.S. economy by misallocating capital, distorting business decisions and reducing government revenue at a time of escalating deficits.
Missing voice on corporate tax reform: Corporations Steven Pearlstein 2010
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By force-feeding a housing recovery, the Fed is misallocating resources that will make the expansion less durable.
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Chris Bell: One area of improvement: Obama could fire one of the few US Attys or DEA Chiefs that continue to perform raids for “misallocating resources.”
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One area of improvement: Obama could fire one of the few US Attys or DEA Chiefs that continue to perform raids for “misallocating resources.”
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The role of complacent, incompetent German lenders in misallocating the euro zone's savings for the past six years has been routinely suppressed.
Sarkozy Risks German Wrath on ECB Geoffrey T. Smith 2011
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In the 1930s, almost no one understood how bad government policy distorts the economy by misallocating resources.
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