IN THE political dictionary he first published in 1968, William Safire, who died on September 27th, devoted an entry to the word \u201cnormalcy\u201d\u009d. The term was made popular by Warren Harding, campaigning for America\u2019s presidency in the wake of the first world war. It was inescapable after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. Normalcy is what people call normality when they no longer take it for granted. No surprise, then, that the word reappeared in the communiqu\u00c3\u00a9 released by the leaders of the G20 group of big economies after their Pittsburgh summit on September 24th-25th. After the wrenching economic crisis of the past year, people crave stability and predictability\u201d\u201din short, normalcy. But how far off is it? And what will a \u201cnormal\u201d\u009d world economy look like after the biggest financial bust since the Depression?<\/p>\n