These are the 20 charts/images that either described 2016 best, or those that I think are just spot on in a different way. This list has been compiled from this year’s shortlist of more than 160 candidates, which in turn has been collected from the weekly Best of the Week overview. Thanks to all the sources, but an extra special thanks to http://www.businessinsider.com, http://www.ritholtz.com, http://www.economist.com and https://ftalphaville.ft.com/.

And here is the final list.

 

Number 20: they beleaved alright…

http://news.forexlive.com/!/brexit-heres-the-front-page-of-the-uks-the-sun-urging-a-leave-vote-20160613

Number 19: is inequality an Anglo-Saxon problem…?

http://equitablegrowth.org/equitablog/what-explains-the-rise-in-income-inequality-at-the-top-of-the-income-distribution/

Number 18: Never before has an ’emerging’ country been this indebted…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-on-china-debt-boom-2016-6

Number 17: the more sizable sell-offs of the last 60 years

http://uk.businessinsider.com/every-stock-market-crash-in-past-60-years-2016-6

Number 16: Festive season? The deadly season is a more appropriate name, it appears

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/30/the-deadliest-day-of-the-year-is-almost-upon-us/

Number 15: 2016 was the year oil markets finally bottomed… 

http://ritholtz.com/2016/05/map-middle-east/

Number 14: 2016 was also the year of negative rates… 

http://www.wsj.com/articles/duration-risk-the-bomb-ticking-inside-todays-bond-market-1460626201

Number 13: the one thing everyone agrees on… 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-20/negative-rates-are-the-tools-of-our-elderly-oppressors

Number 12: the sad record… 

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/06/daily-chart-13

Number 11: death by selfie… 

http://ritholtz.com/2016/06/crashes-terrorists-sharks-oh-my-2/

Number 10: how human beings are wired to go for certain biases 

https://betterhumans.coach.me/cognitive-bias-cheat-sheet-55a472476b18#.tvtaat2io

Number 9: growth has disappointed. A lot.

 http://uk.businessinsider.com/world-economys-depressing-reality-in-one-chart-2016-6

Number 8: it is not the digital camera that killed camera sale: it’s the iphone…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/07/what-the-iphone-has-done-to-cameras-is-completely-insane/

 

Number 7: The Donald

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/uselection/2016/11/04/donald-trump-the-unauthorized-database-of-false-things.html

 

Number 6: Urbanization since way back…

 

Number 5: lower, lower, lower

http://www.vox.com/new-money/2016/10/10/12933426/27-charts-changing-economy

 

Number 4: central bank arsenal….

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bazookas-sinks-aggressive-doves-nobody-loves-silly-metaphors-more-than-central-bankers-1472481317

 

Number 3: problem solving

 

Number 2: This time will not be different…

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21693963-china-cannot-escape-economic-reckoning-debt-binge-brings-red-ink-rising 

 

Number 1: What Trump will bring to the table…

http://uk.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-is-the-tail-risk-candidate-2016-5