After the disappearance of the Soviet Union and the bipolar world order, victorious Western capitalism, under the leadership of the only world power, the United States, reigned supreme in global politics, and even more so in the global economy. Nothing and no one, it seemed, could stem the global triumph of the market, with its transcendence of all previous limits on wealth – that is, until September 15, 2008, the fateful date when Lehman Brothers went bust and the meltdown of the global financial system began.
在苏联和两极世界消失后，胜利的西方资本主义在唯一的世界霸主美国的领导下，称霸全球政治，甚至统治全球经济。好像没有任何事情和任何人能够阻止拥有超过之前所有财富的市场经济在全球范围内的胜利——直到2008年9月15日，这个日子是雷曼兄弟倒闭和全球金融体系走向崩溃的开始。