Sky-high home prices also divert too much capital into home building from potentially more productive uses.

Excessive home prices divert human capital as well.

They feared that Ferris would divert capital into the other divisions until the airline was a rump operation and then start cutting jobs.

We then discover that they have joined forces to divert capital from Paul Wagner.

While I would argue that the index future is without economic validity and diverts capital from the real equity markets, its mere existence might be tolerable.

Kennedy says he cannot imagine any "comprehensive proposal" -for increasing taxes, diverting capital toward savings and making massive investments in education - surviving long on Capitol Hill.

The flow of investment funds distorted economic incentives, destroying markets for efficient American manufacturers and farmers and diverting capital from more productive uses in the developing nations.

The other argument on behalf of Republican industrial policy is that it is a good thing to divert capital into capital-gains-intensive ventures.

To begin with, the mortgage deduction diverts capital from other industries by subsidizing investment in housing relative to other economic activities.

As the sentiment about Asia improves, more fund managers in the United States and Europe are expected to divert capital to these markets.