How to Use moral hazard in a Sentence

moral hazard

noun

• The poster child for moral hazard was risky loans by big banks pre-2008.
  — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2020
• Worse than the cost is the moral hazard and awful precedent this sets.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
• And, of course, keeping in mind that this came on the back of Libya and a moral hazard had been created.
  — CBS News, 2 June 2021
• No one in their work is pure in thought and deed; no one escapes the consequences of moral hazard.
  — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
• The prospect of a bailout presents China the same kind of moral hazard that the US, for instance, faced during the banking crisis of 2008.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 20 Sep. 2021
• This creates a moral hazard: Why not take the risk of living on the coast when the government is picking up the tab?
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 30 Oct. 2022
• And there’s the moral hazard problem, which is when people are shielded from the costs of their decisions and thus make bad ones.
  — John Branch, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• The caption makes no mention of her, noting only the moral hazard of the one-room kitchenette, the foul condition of the toilets, and the noise of the airshaft.
  — Longreads, 20 July 2019
• Doesn't filling in these gaps breed moral hazard, and are there not a bunch of bad guys in these areas causing all sorts of problems?
  — Patrick Moorhead, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2021
• But these government rescues at the very least create moral hazard, and at worst don’t work.
  — Justin Muzinich, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• And buyers beware — there are no questions about moral hazard let alone a bank of last resort in the wild west of crypto.
  — Angus Finney, Variety, 19 Sep. 2022
• When the bottom line is the stockholder and not the patient, there is a moral hazard that cannot be resolved, even with the best of intentions.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 Dec. 2017
• The war itself created the moral hazard Bush now decries.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 14 July 2021
• It's based on behavioral economics, and it's called a moral hazard.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
• France wants to integrate the euro zone further, to prepare it for the next crisis; Germany frets about moral hazard.
  — The Economist, 22 June 2019
• This was a classic case of moral hazard, and everyday Americans were crushed.
  — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
• This can help guard from potential moral hazard as sometimes the EB-5 projects that were promoted the most in the market were the ones that offered the highest commissions.
  — Roberto Contreras, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• China’s leaders are also keen to reduce moral hazard, or risky bets made in the belief that another party will foot the bill if things go wrong.
  — Alexander Saeedy, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2021
• Other critics argue that there is a moral hazard in writing off the costs that only some Americans chose to incur.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2022
• Critics of the opportunistic pension bailout point to a classic moral hazard in finance.
  — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
• Some companies, such as Clif Bar, decided to pull back from the business of sponsoring climbers, in large part because of the moral hazard of financing risk.
  — Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2020
• Some have fret about the moral hazard involved in effectively bailing out failure.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
• Finally, using technology to bring back a species could create what’s known as a moral hazard.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2021
• The moral hazard of the Libra Reserve These risks are compounded by one of the most worrisome elements of Libra’s proposed structure.
  — David Z. Morris, Fortune, 18 July 2019
• Some critics said that making all depositors whole at the lender and Signature Bank, which failed March 12, created a moral hazard.
  — Lizette Chapman, Fortune, 23 June 2023
• In its desperation to create more tech stars, South Korea’s government bears some of the blame for spreading moral hazard in the nascent local hedge-fund industry.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• Thus, providing them with such aid created a moral hazard, giving the firms an incentive to repeat their old mistakes.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 19 Oct. 2017
• The lack of clear price disclosure reduces the pressures for least-cost procurement and creates moral hazard for negotiators.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• There is also the prospect of rewarding failure and subsidizing moral hazard.
  — Richard J. Shinder, WSJ, 10 May 2022
• The argument for insurance limits is based on limiting moral hazard at banks.
  — Maureen O’Hara, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024