overvalue
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Behavioral-finance experts say this stems from the “endowment effect”: a psychological bias where we overvalue what we already own and confuse familiarity with financial security.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Mr. Lefebvre ends up arguing against himself sometimes, and even asks at one point whether humans overvalue avian intelligence simply because we’re so smart.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Purplebricks told us it doesn't overvalue properties and that while price reductions were once a target for rewarding staff, that was no longer the case.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
People tend to overvalue the tax break now versus the long-term consequences of a smaller benefit later, she says.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
Zach is up and down, and true to his nature, he has a tendency to overvalue his achievements.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
I treat many adults who have severe eating disorders partly as a result of growing up in a society that overvalues thinness, promotes dieting for weight loss, and shames people who are overweight or obese.
From Salon ● Feb. 5, 2024
Data shows the draft value chart developed by Johnson in the early 1990s — which assigns each pick numerical value and is still used leaguewide — overvalues the top 50 picks and undervalues the rest.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2020
State lawmakers might revive a failed 2017 bill to reduced Sound Transit car-tab taxes, which are charged on a depreciation schedule that overvalues newer vehicles.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2017
One person overvalues himself while, at the same time, devaluing the contributions of others.
From Inc ● Apr. 10, 2013
"I dare say he overvalues himself as a husband," remarked Carraway, joining in the laugh, "but he has at least the merit of being loyal to your family."
From The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
“Almost all valuation indicators with decent track records suggest that the stock market is not just overvalued — it’s extremely overvalued,” he wrote.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The bad news: It’s just as historically overvalued.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
In absolute terms, the S&P 500 is extremely overvalued, as you can see from the table at the bottom of this column.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026
The global race to build data centres hosting AI infrastructure has seen a meteoric rise in the firm's fortunes, despite concern the sector may be overvalued in a market bubble.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
What prepared him to see what was happening in the mortgage bond market, Paulson said, was a career of searching for overvalued bonds to bet against.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Discovery is overvaluing the global networks business, which is not included in the deal with Netflix, and believes the business may be worth nothing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026
Panorama also investigated the online estate agency Purplebricks, after we heard concerns it had been trying to attract sellers by overvaluing properties.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2025
He and his firm lied to their 120 investors about where their money was going while dramatically overvaluing holdings to justify extortionist management fees.
From Slate ● Nov. 29, 2023
The 2023 class is said to be among the most varied in the hall’s history, with women and people of color outnumbering white men, whose work the group has long been criticized for overvaluing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2023
It may prevent us, in our zeal for the new, from discarding what is valuable in the old, and from overvaluing some things which may have outlived their usefulness.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
