Problems Brewing for the BRICS

This Country Club Has Problem Members, Newsday, October 31, 2015. "For the past 15 years, if you wanted to sound smart about the world, you talked about the rising power of the BRICs. Today, it's the struggles of the BRICs that are making news. But those weaknesses were there all along. The rise of the BRICs, as a term, was a triumph of slick marketing."