Build America Bonds have worsened what economists describe as a misallocation of resources that results from municipal debt's favored status.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muni-Bond Debt Bomb] Reference

"It seems like we may be encouraging misallocation of resources.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Banks Grow Too Big To Fail?] Reference

We have all heard about the gross misallocation of voting machines.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Commander 'N Thief", a must-see documentary by Tom O'Brien] Reference

There is also a misallocation of resources according to medical specialty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Kuttner: Faint Praise] Reference

We will all pay the price for this irreversible misallocation of human capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Price Fixing Explains Shortage of General Surgeons] Reference

This command-and-control approach, however, forces a misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Change We Can Believe In Is All Around Us] Reference

It could be said that here is a gross misallocation of government funds and programs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond J. Learsy: Goldman Turns Into a Financial Frankenstein While the Fed Snoozes Away] Reference

The result is an inefficient distribution of resources and a misallocation of capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Pento: Growth: Never More Needed, Never More Misunderstood] Reference

Second, fiscal stimulus packages often result in the misallocation of social resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Growth, No Stability] Reference

But also it requires a complete misallocation of the Border Patrol on the southern border.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 26, 2005] Reference

It's a misallocation of your precious seething time to let Ann Coulter have any part of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Arnstein: Don't Let Ann Coulter Cut Into Your Seething Time] Reference

For neoclassical theorists, only the misallocation of resources and inefficiencies are failures.    From Wordnik.com.  [Neoclassical, institutional, and marxist approaches to the environment-economic relationship] Reference

There are downsides to such a structure: resource misallocation and corruption, to name just two.    From Wordnik.com.  [Free Trade Is Not Enough] Reference

A low flat tax with no exemptions wouldn't merely put an end to this vast misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Radical Reform: A Modest Proposal] Reference

What are you going to do to be sure you forestall the misallocation of funds and huge amounts of funds?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2003] Reference

That means money supply growth is emanating from government's misallocation and redirection of capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael Pento: The Feds Have No Faith in Recovery] Reference

We view such huge payment of performance bonuses to managers and directors as a misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

But perhaps the problem is not a lack of funds, but rather a misallocation of the money that does get spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Freedman: Election Systems Upgrade: Money's Gone To Iraq] Reference

The risk in Beijing's spending-and-lending stimulus measures is of an eventual, large misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beijing Ponders One Slump or Two] Reference

The U.S. risks perpetuating this misallocation of capital by maintaining extensive federal support for mortgages.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Zombie Banks to Zombie Mortgages?] Reference

You had a mania, and when you have a mania, people make bad judgments because you have a misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [Something We '8] Reference

Sharp and unpredictable exchange-rate movements lead to the misallocation of capital and mistaken business judgments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Decade and Its Lessons] Reference

The sharp and unpredictable turns in currencies lead to the misallocation of capital and mistaken business judgments.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Euro Decade and Its Lessons] Reference

That does not sound like the right balance to me, and we need to start changing that misallocation of time and effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vp Gore Address To The California Legislature] Reference

Our system for disposing of human waste is an enormous misallocation of resources that wastes water, energy, and money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Glennon: No Impact Week: The Enigma of the Water Closet] Reference

He said the union saw the payment of such big performance bonuses to managers and directors as "misallocation of resources".    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The problem is their overflowing coffers contributed to a major misallocation of capital in recent years that is likely to continue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brave New Economy] Reference

President Obama and respectable economists are well aware that the financial crisis was caused by massive misallocation of resources.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

This is a drastic market correction to compensate for twenty years of massive misallocation of resources towards immediate consumption.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference

The elimination of interest deductibility for everything except mortgages encouraged the misallocation of capital into housing, as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Capital Rules, Tax Policy Also Inflated the Bubble] Reference

The clearest example of the short-run misallocation of resources concerns our failure to provide adequate assistance to mortgage holders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jay Mandle: The Response to the Economic Crisis] Reference

Their field operations have far too frequently suffered from lack of political will, misallocation of resources, and just plain incompetence.    From Wordnik.com.  [James Ross: The US, the UN and My Friend Leah] Reference

Subsidies distort prices and lead to misallocation of resources (judged by the preferences of consumers and the opportunity costs of producers).    From Wordnik.com.  [An Economy of Liars] Reference

Several years ago John Edwards (yes, that JE) spoke about two Americas, but he was essentially referring to the misallocation of wealth in this country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jon Ossoff: It's Time For A Red And Blue Annulment] Reference

Unless there is effective regulation and prosecution, this misallocation creates an epidemic of accounting control fraud that hyper-inflates financial bubbles.    From Wordnik.com.  [William K. Black: How the Servant Became a Predator: Finance's Five Fatal Flaws] Reference

Such dramatic currency-price swings tend to result in misallocated capital, and the damage from that misallocation, and its inevitable correction, can be severe.    From Wordnik.com.  [America's Monetary Woes Let the Air Out of Europe] Reference

Randi Weingarten's ideas about how testing should or should not be used are essential to fixing the gross misallocation of time and resources in many public schools today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dan Brown: Public Schools Get a Boost Today: AFT Elects President Randi Weingarten] Reference

In a form of social peacockery, the greater the misallocation of resources proposed, the more lavish the ovation -- though here Mr. Pickens has already been outdone by Al Gore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boone Doggle] Reference

They had had this for 35 years and the result was a spectacular misallocation of capital across the entire economy -- with very devastating impact on the economy of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keynote Address at the TD Waterhouse Investment Advisor Conference] Reference

In exchange for a temporary bounce, by encouraging a potential new round of massive capital misallocation China may have locked itself into many years of sub-par economic growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [China's Consumption Conundrum] Reference