The year 2022 was marked by multiple challenges that seemed to plunge our economy, which was slowly waking up from the nightmare of the pandemic that paralyzed the world in 2020, into a decadent spiral from which it would take decades to emerge. However, despite the start of the war in Ukraine, the energy crisis, supply chain bottlenecks, runaway inflation, and the end of free money, our economy achieved 5.5% growth, showing a level of resilience that was hard to imagine and exceeding most of the negative forecasts.