Yet the economic crisis that began in 2008 exposed one of the four as an impostor. Set the vital statistics of the BRIC economies side-by-side and it becomes painfully obvious that, in the words of the old Sesame Street game, “One of these things is not like the other.”
在本轮的泡沫经济中，有一种相对来说没受到冲击的理论，那就是所谓“金砖四国”的概念——巴西，俄罗斯，印度和中国——在全球经济中越来越有分量。金砖四国的概念是高盛在2003年提出的，这个概念看起来不坏，至少75%的正确，它比当今社会的其他经济概念来的要准确一些。