11. That's the best way to avoid the kind of overinvestment that is part of any capital spending boom. 12. Even more damaging has been a huge-scale bad debt problem caused by overinvestment in real estate and factories. 13. Overinvestment may seem wasteful, but then it's always easy to identify winners once the race is over.14. The boom that has ended produced huge overinvestment in some industries, as companies like Cisco Systems learned too late. 15. Recessions happen as part of the business cycle because of overinvestment by business, market speculation and excessive debt buildup. 16. The answer is a binge of overinvestment and overbuilding, with too many companies and people trying to seize a trend. 17. Economists have put more of the responsibility on overinvestment by many companies in computers, telecommunications equipment and other capital goods. 18. Samsung Motors has been cited as a typical case of overinvestment by South Korean conglomerates which relied heavily on bank loans. 19. Chinese leaders worry that overinvestment by companies in such industries as steel could set off inflation after years of declining prices. 20. After a disastrous overinvestment in colour television production, Tandberg folded and revived without the HiFi-branch these came from.
