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Ten things that didn’t happen in 2013

For the financial industry, this was a year that was defined as much by what failed to happen as what did. Here are 10 dogs that didn’t bark over the past 12 months

A great many things didn’t happen this year. On one level, that’s true every year: an infinite number of things don’t happen every day. But, as in a Samuel Beckett play, 2013 found meaning in the silences, in the negative space between events and in the waiting for things which never came to pass.

1. The world didn't end

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