How to Use moral hazard in a Sentence

moral hazard

noun
Definition of moral hazardnext
  • 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
  • And the moral hazard remains of profligate countries in the zone piggybacking on frugal ones.
    — Iese Business School, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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 cost-benefit equation doesn’t account for moral hazard, either.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • 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

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