If you lived in Ireland, things probably weren’t too bad. Otherwise, you were faced with this unhappy list: terrorism; the rise of right-wing populism; the Greek debacle; the refugee crisis; and pitifully slow growth. In short, it was a year to forget.
2016 should be about dealing with the new normal. The next crisis figures to be in 2017, with the Brexit referendum and the French election, which, in some ways, will be about Frexit.