How to Use moral hazard in a Sentence

moral hazard

noun
  • In short, moral hazard on steroids.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Having them in the house is a moral hazard for me.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 8 Jan. 2026
  • That is a textbook moral hazard.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Worse than the cost is the moral hazard and awful precedent this sets.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
  • The poster child for moral hazard was risky loans by big banks pre-2008.
    — oregonlive, 11 Aug. 2020
  • 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
  • But these government rescues at the very least create moral hazard, and at worst don’t work.
    — Justin Muzinich, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • It's based on behavioral economics, and it's called a moral hazard.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 14 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • This was a classic case of moral hazard, and everyday Americans were crushed.
    — WSJ, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Some have fret about the moral hazard involved in effectively bailing out failure.
    — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 15 Nov. 2021
  • The cost-benefit equation doesn’t account for moral hazard, either.
    — Daniel A. Gross, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2023
  • Efforts to cancel student debt are portrayed not as social policy but as moral hazard.
    — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026
  • Finally, using technology to bring back a species could create what’s known as a moral hazard.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2021
  • However, there’s another risk too, this is what economists call moral hazard.
    — Simon Moore, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Critics of the opportunistic pension bailout point to a classic moral hazard in finance.
    — Michael Taylor, San Antonio Express-News, 31 Mar. 2021
  • 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
  • Critics also tend to ignore the moral hazard embedded in the current system.
    — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The argument for insurance limits is based on limiting moral hazard at banks.
    — Maureen O’Hara, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Aside from the moral hazard involved, these benefits are not meant to be for voluntarily walking off the job.
    — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 6 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • There is also the prospect of rewarding failure and subsidizing moral hazard.
    — Richard J. Shinder, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • And the moral hazard remains of profligate countries in the zone piggybacking on frugal ones.
    — Iese Business School, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • Finally, Moody’s found that student loan cancellation could lead to moral hazard.
    — Zack Friedman, Forbes, 15 May 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
  • 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

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