What's hot, what's not - 52 week edition

Curious to see what those little numbers next to the bars in the Wall Street Journal's weekly tally of What's Hot...What's Not would look like if given their own set of bars, the graphic below was promptly whipped up.
Cash (the U.S. dollar variety) and gold were clearly the place to be this year and that's probably not going to change all that much over the next five weeks.

Then, mercifully, the books will be closed on the year 2008.

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This week's cartoon from The Economist: