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misallocate
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mis·al·lo·cate  (ms-l-kt)
tr.v. mis·al·lo·cat·ed, mis·al·lo·cat·ing, mis·al·lo·cates
To allocate (resources or capital, for example) wrongly or inappropriately.

misal·lo·cation n.


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Truth be told, I think all of this is a multi-decade long problem, a series of bad decisions, misallocations and distortions by government intervention in the marketplace that has serious consequences.
The American (and world) economy is struggling mightily to correct for decades of fiscal abuse, mostly in the form of massive public and private indebtedness, huge misallocations of investment, and the inflationary policies of central banks like the Federal Reserve.
In China the extraordinarily rapid pace of fixed capital investment of the last two decades is expected to stall, fuelled not only by worries about misallocations of capital, but by lack of export demand as well.
 
 
 
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