Definition of "malinvest" []

• To invest incorrectly or unwisely (verb)

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• ""malinvest" labor and capital and recessions are necessary to "clean out" these malinvestments."
• "Decades of affordable housing policies including CRA created severe malinvest in the nation's housing stock."
• "After money supply increases by way of credit expansion, businesses malinvest by "overinvesting in higher-stage and durable production processes," Rothbard explained in Real-estate developers by and large use debt financing every step of the way from when they buy the land to when they start construction."