Definition of "malinvestments" [malinvestments]

• Plural form of malinvestment. (noun)

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• "Yet there is not the slightest hint that the author has considered the possibility that the origin of these "excesses" -- what Austrians call malinvestments -- is purely economic and avoidable."
• "It stimulates over-consumption at the expense of viable capital formation, and it stimulates or maintains malinvestments at the expense of viable capital projects."
• "Monetary inflation counterfeits the signs of a boom and that causes investors, manufacturers, etc. to build excess capacity or other malinvestments."