But the focus on people leads us to overinvest in the rewards for individual innovation and underinvest in the intellectual commons that make those innovations possible. ❋ Ezra Klein (2010)
Under some circumstances, authors and technologists will overinvest because private value exceeds social value. ❋ Rebecca Tushnet (2009)
If you overestimate or overinvest in one part of the system, like building coastal defenses, and then you do not invest in the other parts of the system, like backup systems or redundant systems, then, you get what we just saw. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Company executives can then be blamed if they either underinvest or overinvest in spectrum. ❋ L. Gordon Crovitz (2011)
They give incentives for excessive risk taking, which means that banks may overinvest in risky loans something we witnessed quite clearly in the housing market leading up to the crisis. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)
Our farmers don't necessarily overinvest in tractors and agronomy degrees. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And the market players followed up with a vengeance, reacting to all of the incentives to overinvest in housing that national policy created. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)
You know, this isn't your apartment, you're not going to live there, you don't want to overinvest and over remodel it to the point that people won't be willing to pay for those improvements. ❋ Unknown (2008)
While many consumers invest too much in one company because they have inherited the equity or collected it from an employer, individuals frequently overinvest in local companies. ❋ Unknown (2008)
When one technology is growing rapidly, it's easy to get caught up in the hype and overinvest in it. ❋ Gerard J. Tellis (2008)
Overpriced stocks cause consumers to overspend and businesses to overinvest -- and none of it can last. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The same employers who blather about keeping workers safe may encourage them to overinvest in company stock. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The shares themselves may be low-risk, but it's high-risk to overinvest in them. ❋ Unknown (2008)
VELSHI: Well, you won't want to overinvest in property if you think, you know, bad things are going to happen, but right now the average price for an apartment in New York -- and we all live in apartments here -- is a million dollars. ❋ Unknown (2007)
