malinvestment
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- noun
- /ˌmælɪnˈvɛstmənt/
- Specialized
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mala inversión
- The economist explained that malinvestment often results from following misleading signals in the market.
The market will require the liquidation of malinvestment and excessive debt.
- The market will require the liquidation of malinvestment and excessive debt.
- The losses associated with this huge malinvestment are real, even if they're not being recognised.
- And this segment right here is the mess of malinvestment.
Examples
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But with many of the projects left unfinished, a lot of malinvestment will have to be realized.
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Economic crashes are a consequence of massive amounts of malinvestments—malinvestments which can only be caused by artificial credit expansion.
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This is a big part of their malinvestment problem.
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I am sure we could look at every economy in the world and point to malinvestment.
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The government is in the way of innovation because it creates malinvestment.
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The market will require the liquidation of malinvestment and excessive debt.
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The losses associated with this huge malinvestment are real, even if they're not being recognised.
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Austrians suggest that credit expansion causes malinvestment.
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A painful adjustment process takes place as malinvestments are liquidated.
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When risk has been transferred to the taxpayers by guarantees, giveaways, and subsidies, then speculation and malinvestment are incentivized.
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Synonyms
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3.0
An amount of money spent without getting a useful result
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A situation in which money or other resources go to the wrong place
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Money people waste when they make a bad choice
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Using valuable things like time or money in a wasteful way
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Putting too much money into a project or company that does not pay back
Surface Forms
Morphology
malinvestment = investment (transparent) = mal + invest + ment
The prefix 'mal-' (bad) attaches to the common noun 'investment' to yield the sense 'bad or unproductive investment', a directly derivable meaning.
Etymology
Malinvestment joins mal- meaning 'bad', as in malfunction, with investment, meaning putting money into something. So, malinvestment means a 'bad investment' — money put into something wasteful or that does not make money.