Wilson blamed the risk of homelessness on the failure of national policy to build more homes and immigration from eastern Europe for the housing shortage.
In a statement, Moody's blamed the risk of a Greek exit from the euro, stalled economic growth and the chances that France will have to contribute to bailing out other countries.
Some experts now blame the peculiar risk-taking incentives created by share options for many subsequent corporate scandals.
The Democrats stressed the dangers of deregulated shadow markets; the Republicans blamed contagion, the risk that the failure of one derivatives counterparty could cause the other banks to topple.
And who will they blame when the risk goes wrong and they run out of money in their late 70s, as will inevitably be the case for some people?
These are low-risk jobs: nobody blames the stars if the cartoon bombs.
Charles partly blamed the temptation of risk and adventure in growing numbers of people joining extremist organisations, but said the "frightening part" was the role of the internet.
Iran's Haemophilia Society, for example, has blamed the sanctions for risking thousands of children's lives due to a lack of proper drugs.
Some shareholders, as well as British regulators and politicians, have blamed the culture of risk-taking under Mr. Diamond for the bank's ethical lapses.
Nobody wins when our constitutional system falters: not the president, who gains unilateral power but loses a governing partner; not Congress, which gets to blame the president but risks irrelevance; and certainly not the American people, who have to bear the resulting dysfunction.
