He's been outspoken on the need to bring the crisis to a head, one way or another.
That would follow the script from 1998 when three rate cuts between September and November helped to bring the LTCM crisis to a speedy end.
He announced two weeks ago that he intended to bring the political crisis to a head by withdrawing the rest of the Ulster Unionist ministers because his party could no longer sit in the executive with Sinn Fein.
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However the deal still has to be agreed by a number of national parliaments, and the reaction of the financial markets suggests it has failed to bring a swift end to the euro crisis.
In July 2011, Albert gave an emotional televised address, appealing to political leaders to display "modern citizenship" to bring an end to a drawn-out crisis, which left the country without an elected government for a world-record one-and-a-half years.
Indeed, the most important potential benefit of this bigger break-up is that it could bring the euro crisis to a decisive end by restoring confidence in a smaller but sturdier single-currency area.
And their actions, in the absence of strong oversight, intensified the cycle of bubble-and-bust and led to a financial crisis that threatened to bring down the entire economy.
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"I believe that the escalation of the military build-up in Aleppo and the surrounding area is further evidence of the need for the international community to come together to persuade the parties that only a political transition, leading to a political settlement will resolve this crisis and bring peace to the Syrian people, " he said in a statement.
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And soon after taking office, I proposed a set of reforms to empower consumers and investors, to bring the shadowy deals that caused this crisis into the light of day, and to put a stop to taxpayer bailouts once and for all. (Applause.) Today, thanks to a lot of people in this room, those reforms will become the law of the land.
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But why does it take a crisis to bring out the best in our leaders?
"We are creatures of habit, " Grimsson offered by way of explanation, adding that "it usually takes a crisis to bring about change".
Needless to say, a near doubling of the U.S. national debt suggests that the endgame to this crisis is going to eventually bring much higher interest rates and a collapse in today's bond-market bubble.
This might take the aircraft out of service for a year or more, and would bring the airframer close to financial meltdown as it battled with a crisis much worse than the delay it experienced getting the 787 to certification.
Finally, on Libya, he welcomed the spirit of collaboration that has characterized the efforts of the United Nations and the African Union, and said there was a shared resolve to bring an end to the crisis and usher in an era of democracy and peace.
Mr Annan, a former UN secretary general who has acted as a diplomatic troubleshooter in several long-running conflicts, said he hoped to "help bring an end to the violence and human rights abuses, and promote a peaceful solution to the Syrian crisis".
It takes more information, or a crisis of some kind, to bring everybody to the table and work out a deal.
The bears continue to cling to the idea that the European debt mess is going to evolve into a crisis of debt contagion and bring down the global economy in the process.
There's a solution to Iran's looming energy crisis: Bring in foreign capital and technology to boost oil and gas production.
There is a solution to Iran's looming energy crisis: Bring in foreign capital and technology to boost oil and gas production.
There is the Greek crisis, where Sunday's election threatens to bring to power a party committed to defying the old, Merkel-Sarkozy designed austerity package.
Most important, Japan's public debt levels have pierced 200% of GDP (the U.S. is at 65%), and even a marginal increase in interest rates would bring Japan to the brink of financial crisis.
"This crisis gives us the opportunity to bring about fundamental change in the direction of a more streamlined and consolidated system" of regulating both banks and investment banks, Geithner said in a speech.
In light of the current financial crisis, Cheers concedes that it's a tricky time to bring out a such an expensive book, but interest in the venture has been high and he is confident that it will sell.
The end of international sanctions that had strangled the economy, and helped bring about apartheid's end, ushered in a record 15 years of growth up to the global financial crisis in 2009.
He accepted the argument that in an international crisis, having to bring one of these deadly subs out of mothballs could in itself be a fateful act of escalation.
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