This report highlights some of the best reports, photographs and videos of 2012, when the global financial crisis rolled into its fourth year. The re-election of Barack Obama as U.S. president focused the news agenda for months, as news on Wall Street pay and the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy added further fuel to debates around inequality and climate change. Bloomberg reported on the losers and winners among investors, from Facebook's share offering to gains reaped on Greek debt.
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Automobiles occupy an outsized chunk of my time. When you drive as many as three new cars a week, every week, slamming doors, pinching leather, evaluating gas mileage and figuring out how the radio works, the small stuff matters.
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By late October, New York was on track to have its most impressive year for new restaurants since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ongoing recession ravaged our city’s economy.
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Not long before an explosion that she doesn’t see coming, a CIA operative in Kathryn Bigelow’s extraordinary “Zero Dark Thirty” offers a toast: “To big breaks, and the little people who make them happen.”
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Vipshop Holdings Ltd., the Chinese web retailer that sells brands from Calvin Klein to Nike at a discount, is handing investors the best returns among foreign companies that went public in the U.S. this year as slower growth in the Asian nation stokes demand for low-cost items.
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Commanding new voices and rising young actors competed with revivals for attention in 2012. These were the best of them, on and off Broadway.
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What books have high-profile readers been enjoying this year?
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As another year of tumultuous events unfolded across the globe, there to record them all was Bloomberg's team of award-winning photographers, capturing poignant and compelling imagery.
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Images of vast diversity were captured in 2012 by our ever thoughtful and creative photographers: water drops falling across the Facebook logo; Spanish self-propelled aerial platforms reaching for the sky.
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The high-end art market plowed ahead in 2012 as collectors looked for alternatives to the stockmarket volatility amid the European debt crisis and concerns in the U.S. about a new budget.
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About halfway through the 25-course, $180 tasting menu at Blanca in Bushwick, chef Carlo Mirarchi places a single ravioli in front of diners.
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To read some of the most compelling Bloomberg News stories of the year, click through this inaugural Web Editors' Choice collection.
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Our global network of photographers has been busy portraying the uncertain political landscape of 2012.
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The year 2012 challenged Bloomberg photographers with a variety of global economic stories, from Japan Airlines' trading debut to Swiss banks losing employees.
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Time after time in 2012, Bloomberg photographers came through with striking, pointed, poignant and just plain beautiful images.
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Bloomberg photographers have documented a breathtakingly diverse world of work in 2012. From the frantic trading floor at the London Metals Exchange to precarious descents into Indian mines.
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If people were investments, 2012's champion would be a whiskey-drinking Venezuelan who sells pharmaceuticals to teenagers. That's one interpretation, anyway, from Bloomberg.com's tally of the year's best and worst investments.
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In many ways, 2012 was the year of the "B" word: billion. Few milestones in business are as significant as hitting a billion, and this year it defined some of the biggest moments in technology.
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