Government subsidies and guarantees encourage irresponsible attitudes and behavior, and thereby promote malinvestments and other wasteful uses of available resources.
More than a decade of persistent monetary inflation, including the innovation of quantitative easing and long-term interest rate manipulation, spurred huge malinvestment in the public sector activity.
When it came to specific questions on inflation, the complaint was the cost of living and a related fall in living standards, the latter consistent with malinvestment.