If one can try to apply any sort of timeline to our ongoing global crack up, it may go a little like this.
The year of collapse was 2008. Lehman Brothers crashed on Sept. 15, and a certain set of ideas - such as the unquestioned wisdom of deregulation for deregulation's sake - died along with the storied Wall Street firm, and the credibility of a generation of economists, journalists, business leaders and politicians.
