Misallocating

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." ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

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.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

By force-feeding a housing recovery, the Fed is misallocating resources that will make the expansion less durable. ❋ Unknown (2012)

One area of improvement: Obama could fire one of the few US Attys or DEA Chiefs that continue to perform raids for “misallocating resources.” ❋ Unknown (2010)

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. ❋ Steven Pearlstein (2010)

The authors fret over unacknowledged bad loans piling up within the system which implies leaders have been rampantly misallocating capital, and they estimate total public debt of about 76% of GDP, a very high figure for a developing country. ❋ Rick Carew (2011)

By propping up the failing airlines, we are misallocating capital in the US right now. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The role of complacent, incompetent German lenders in misallocating the euro zone's savings for the past six years has been routinely suppressed. ❋ Geoffrey T. Smith (2011)

In the 1930s, almost no one understood how bad government policy distorts the economy by misallocating resources. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One lesson — perhaps the most important — of the financial crisis is that broad policy favors for housing hurt every American by misallocating capital and credit. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Given the fact that the stock market has already priced in all of these gargantuan fiscal measures, how can Mr. Kessler attribute the market's rise largely to "the Fed's life support that is misallocating capital." ❋ Unknown (2010)

As we know from one and 10 years ago, the market works in weird ways and makes these transitions in the fog of something else, in this case it's the Fed's life support that is misallocating capital. ❋ Andy Kessler (2010)

"i'm [saying] this new [definition] of 'online [verb] misallocation' to people" ❋ Schizo Bubble (2008)