In a statement at the time, Ingeborg Grässle, a German member of the European Parliament, called the case a "gross misallocation of resources".
Those historical comparisons should be a wake-up call to President Obama, underscoring how our military strategy is not only a mess — as the recent leaked documents from Afghanistan suggested — but also more broadly reflects a gross misallocation of resources.
India's current price ceiling and the predictable shortages for rides during peak times is bad for both the riders, drivers, society, and leads to a deadweight loss because of the misallocation of time, money, human capital and human potential.
Negative feedback in the form of doubting a CHA's expertise, not trusting CHAs with drugs, or misallocation of tasks may, over time, make CHAs perceive themselves to be less competent to perform their tasks that they really are.
"It's a misallocation of capital," Mr. Girouard said.
The problem with modern finance "isn't just about excessive rents and a misallocation of capital," Paul Woolley said.
"Today eBay suffers from an inefficient organizational structure, wasteful spend and a misallocation of resources," Elliott wrote.
"The fact that the AFL was spending a huge amount of time and effort on financial reform seemed like a huge misallocation of resources.
"That's a misallocation of funds," said Mr. Vallely, director of the Vietnam program at the Harvard Institute of International Development.
The economist Martin Wolf rightly calls this "the greatest misallocation of resources imaginable".
There was "a misallocation of trades," said Jeffrey Peek, president of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, in a memorandum sent on Friday.
