Dan Plesch of the Royal United Services Institute believes the whole British and American approach to military intervention is blunt and far too crisis-driven.

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We sat down with Coulton as part of this month's Engadget Show, discussing his midlife crisis-driven decision to quit his day job and the journey that the internet played in making him a star.

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The Socialist candidate explained how he would seek to expand Europe's response to the euro sovereign-debt crisis to incorporate more growth-driven policies.

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When I look at the global water crisis purely from a market-driven perspective, I see perhaps the single greatest imbalance of supply and demand that exists in the global marketplace.

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It's also going to require that we look at new models for where future growth is going to come from, because one of the I think key understandings coming out of this past financial crisis is that a lot of our growth was debt-driven -- credit cards being maxed out, home equity loans being taken out to finance a lot of purchases.

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Twice before in the current crisis, in 2008 and 2011, the ECB has embarked on rate-hiking cycles driven by the perception of inflation threats.

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Derivatives tied to mortgage-backed securities played a key role in the financial crisis of 2008, with AIG driven to the brink of bankruptcy by bad moves in that market.

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The downgrades were "driven by the increased risk of further shocks emanating from the euro-area debt crisis, in combination with the banks' limited loss-absorption capacity, " Moody's said.

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