This is not the moral hazard risk he was referring to. The bank still has no incentive to load up on overly risky investments because in the case of an FDIC takeover, they (the investors and executives) will still loose everything. The moral hazard here is for depositors. They have an incentive to put their money in the bank with the highest possible yield no matter what the bank's investment portfolio looks like, since their deposits are now seemingly guaranteed by the banking system as whole.
To be fair, I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing for certainly types of very low yield accounts (checking accounts with no interest, etc). But there certainly is an element of moral hazard at play.
To be fair, I'm not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing for certainly types of very low yield accounts (checking accounts with no interest, etc). But there certainly is an element of moral hazard at play.