Markets: A Year In Graphics By The Bespoke Investment Group

Time is a man made construct and for that reason, most years tend to melt away to oblivion. Who has strong reason to remember 1996 or 2004? But 2008 like 1968 and 2001 was a tumultuous year and impossible to forget.

From a Chinese tragedy to a Chinese triumph, from a $147 per barrel to a $50bn fraud and from record unemployment to a new employee in the White House.

Click the graph to see it all unfold on a S&P500 timeline.