Many of the economic trends that have defined countries’ fortunes over the past year are especially striking when seen visually—how in the U.S., for example, unemployment declined, or how, in Russia, the ruble plummeted. 

Here are four charts that reveal trends with particularly far-reaching implications for the global economy as a whole

The New Yorker BY VAUHINI VARA  DECEMBER 20, 2014

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