From “meme stocks” and a ship wedged in the Suez Canal to spiraling inflation, economic news dominated much of 2021.

The year was also marked by the COVID-19 pandemic, which touched nearly every aspect of society as it spread and mutated. While 2020 will likely go down in the history books as the year the virus shut everything down and scientists scrambled to produce vaccines, 2021 will likely be remembered for all of the pandemic’s downstream effects.

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