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Heard this on the radio this morning. Can anyone guess which countries these include?
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Belgium, Romania, Ireland, Montenegro, and Korea?
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Montenegro??
BRICK countries...all caps...probably an acronym...dang: all I can think of is that the I might stand for industrialized.
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Korea
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Full marks - those are the ones. I'm not sure how useful this grouping is economically or politically speaking, but it a good acronym. I'm sure it works magic if you squeeze it into a conversation; you come off as a trendy political analyst. 
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> trendy political analyst
'specially if you work it into a phrase about "another BRICK in the Wall St cartel..."
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Thre are several mutual funds specializing in the stocks of companies in those five countries. I am not among them, for two reasons:
first, energy costs are going to squeeze everyone to the bone in the next few years and corporate profits are all going to go the way of the dinosaurs for the foreseeable future.
second, if I were to invest I would invest at home because investing overseas serves only to make the US a weaker country.
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Quote:
Montenegro??
BRICK countries...all caps...probably an acronym...dang: all I can think of is that the I might stand for industrialized.
Crna Gora. It's Montenegrin for Black Mountain.
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I've seen a variant of this, without the K at the end: Brazil, Russia, India and China. I wonder why South Korea would get dropped out of it sometimes...
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Maybe it sounds too goofy to make it 'BRICRoK'. 
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