A perspective on what awaits us in the new year: Elon's empire on the brink, oil price-supply&demand, geopolitics in China-Taiwan issue, other regional hostilities: Belarus-Ukraine, Kosovo-Serbia, and India-China, another potential hotspot: Ghana defaulting on its debt, and finally the big question mark: housing market.

And a final look into last year: 2022 - Bubble of genius.

"We got a long way to go and a short time to get there". 

Our perspective on the new year continues: $545bn in interest in the $1.7tn congressional bill, $31tn US federal debt, pension funds at risk, and threats to the US Dollar's reserve currency position.

Join us as we go through the news of the year's last week: Bank of Japan surprising the markets, Biden bailing out a pension fund through pandemic response package, the House failing to ban stock trading for the Congress, Uruguay's global ambitions shaking up Mercosur, China and Covid hitting headlines again, and housing market softening in the boom locations. 

We would like to thank you all for tuning in each week whether on our blog or here on the podcast and hopefully we have been a positive addition to your lives in the past year. Your C Thomas Printer Cooperative Podcast 2022 wrap, brought to you with love.

Somewhat muted news flow this week. But we still found news that make C Thomas angry. EU's gas price cap, US Midwest mayors looking for Chinese investments, Toyota president saying silent majority questioning EV-only push, ESG fund managers' frustration with the regulators, Big Short Burry seeing similarities between crypto and 2008 crisis, US Senate banking chair floating possibility of banning crypto. He got happy when talking about the World Cup though.

Our traditional Sunday episode is being released on Saturday this week as we talk about today's Army-Navy Football Game and the notion of honor. 

This week we talk about Indonesia putting 100-island archipelago up for auction, and wanting to create an OPEC-like organization for Nickel, Xiaomi aiming to sell 10 million electric cars annually, China's comprehensive relationship with Latin America, and nuclear energy gaining popularity.