Special Report

Year in Review

The contradictions and complexity of 2010, and our attempt to make sense of them

2010 in Review

The pall of Lehman Brothers' collapse in 2008 is still settling over many Western economies and its citizens. Yet things aren't all dreary. We've tried to take the contradictions of 2010 and show how stories link up, sometimes in unexpected ways
Table of Contents

The words, people, and images that capture 2010
Slide Show: The Year in Six Words

Normal, Jobs, Spills, Stuck, Currency, and Gaga say all that needs to be said about 2010
Behind the Cover, Part I

365 days, 61 charts, 289 pictures, 7 essays: the business year in perspective
Behind the Cover, Part 2

365 days, 61 charts, 289 pictures, 7 essays: the business year in perspective
Normal

The year in reset expectations
Jobs

The year in employment, and especially its opposite

Spills

The year in leakage, from BP to WikiLeaks to the Flash Crash and Twitter
Stuck

The year in gridlock—transportational, political, and otherwise
Currency

The year in money, from the Federal Reserve to currency war to the savory notion of bacon bucks
Gaga

The year in popular enthusiasms. Enthusiasms, enthusiasms ... Bieber!
The 2010 Lexicon (.pdf)

Mark Hurd. WikiLeaks. Groupon. Vuvuzela. We chart the ups and downs of the year's memorable terms
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