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Coming off euphoric highs of the year before, the crypto market has endured an environment of tightening monetary policy, which led to sell-offs, implosions of projects like Terra, bankruptcy filings of CeFi companies including Celsius Network and Voyager Digital and the climactic downfall of the FTX exchange.

Out of 14 predictions for the year ahead, Bryce, Alec and Andrew review each one and discuss the circumstances around those topics for 2023.

It's our final episode for the year. Since launching at the end of April, we’ve released 149 episodes, written a quarter of a million words in notes, won Best Business Podcast at this year’s Australian Podcast Award, and been downloaded hundreds of thousands of times - by you.

With geopolitical events causing uncertainty and unrest, it can feel uncomfortable to ask about what is happening with your share portfolio. However, given the globalised nature of how economies interact, it is important to inform ourselves on the situation from different perspectives. Today, Maddy and Sophie chat through how both governments and corporations are responding to the Russian- Ukraine conflict and what impact this has on the stock market.

This is the first of our 'What Crypto Did' episodes, where we talk about the latest news stories that have been filling your feeds over the past few weeks. We kick off with the biggest story that has been dominating the news lately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Cryptocurrency has been catapulted into the spotlight as a result of the invasion, with the humanitarian aid fund Relief receiving over $50 million worth of donations in cryptocurrency. Then Tracey brings the bizarre story of the alleged Bitfinex hackers, an unknown writer and rapper Heather Morgan (AKA Razzle Khan) and her husband Elya Lichtenstein. We go over the crypto ads that aired during the superbowl and Tracey discusses Twitter's integration of Ethereum for tipping fellow users on the platform.

The war in Ukraine is the only topic in markets this week, but the boys also look at the takeover bid for AGL, the latest wages data, and why beer prices are going up in Amsterdam. All this and more on this week's Comedian v Economist.