Then it collapsed to over BRL2.20 when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and markets around the world collapsed.

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Since then it has collapsed even further and has now flat lined while the financial markets have experienced one of their greatest rallies ever.

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Then it all collapsed.

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They begin with an account of the pre-revolutionary consensus, such as it was, in Europe, America and the third world, and then describe how it collapsed, partly under the assault of new thinking, and partly under pressure of experience.

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Then in 2008, it all collapsed.

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And then it all culminated in a house of cards that collapsed in the most destructive financial crisis since the Great Depression.

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