"malinvestment" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1907, The Ontario Weekly Reporter and Index-digest, volume 8, page 572:",
          "text": "Action by R. B. Carman against the executors of the will of John Wightman to recover the amount due upon a mortgage, and counterclaim by defendants against R. B. Carman, James Leitch, and R. A. Pringle, for malinvestment of funds, etc.",
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          "ref": "2014, Randal G Holcombe, Advanced Introduction to the Austrian School of Economics, page 92:",
          "text": "Even if market participants realize that price signals may be distorted, they have no good way to know what the undistorted set of prices would be, so malinvestment takes place during the boom phase of the business cycle.",
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          "ref": "2014, Philipp Bagus, In Defense of Deflation, page 77:",
          "text": "It is painful for the owners of malinvestments but fast and efficient.",
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        "An incorrect or unwise investment."
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