Do you think this is the end of the line or will there be more uncanny news about Switzerland soon?

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  1. Its going to continue unless we drastically change, but I dont see that happening until its somewhat too late.

  2. Gruyère is still there and Toblerone is just for tourist.
    Weapons and Credit Suisse are just an issue for the politics and riche people.

    I am a working man, my money is at Raiffeisen, I buy my cheese locally and my chocolate is M-Buget with hazelnut splinters.
    Just give me back ice hockey on the SRF and will be happy.

  3. Honestly the Credit Suisse story is less important than it appears, most shareholders are foreigners anyway. Maybe for Zurich might be relevant, but the Swiss bank unit of Credit Suisse is safe and profitable, I have no doubts that things will keep going like normal.

    I was way more excited about yesterday’s Servette HC – Lugano match, it was fucking awesome

  4. no, we invested in crédit suisse, please don’t come on don’t i don’t want to loose my money, fuck dad, why in all investment did you have to invest in crédit suisse ffs…and he bought even more yesterday…sigh…

  5. The Swiss government should buy Credit Suisse, just to be able to change it’s name. It’s an embarrassment to the word Suisse at this point.

  6. Okay, I’ll risk to get downvoted into oblivion here: The whole discussion about toblerone being swiss is in my opinion ridicolously hypocritical. The entire chocolate industry has its foundations in colonialism and to this day we import cacao beans to make things like toblerone. Often profiting from bad working conditions and low salaries far away from home. Yes, refining raw products into neat products is a thing Switzerland is great at. But sterilizing some simple milk chocolate to the pillar of swiss production and identity despite it being made with the work of some poor farmers and gatherers far away from home who are likely often still suppressed by us Europeans through economical means is just comically cynic, ignorant and selfish.

  7. The day Migros Ice Tea go bankrupt will mean our end as a nation. Even Olten won’t survive that.

    But Crédit Suisse, who cares ? We have cantonal banks.

  8. UBS buying CS would be like asking a Formula 1 race car to tow another in a race.

    It might be able to salvage what’s left of it, but that would make the entire Swiss banking system uncompetitive for years to come relative to other nations.

    Our banks might end up in the same leagues as Polish or Greek banks and would not be able to compete with the big leagues from other nations for years to come.

    Sometimes, it’s better to declare a bank a total loss and let it fail than to salvage it and live with all the liabilities.

  9. Switzerland is now merely a piece of real estate belonging to the rich. Anyone earning above 6000 monthly (and there are not that many) can count themselves fortunate.

  10. Swiss more fooked then anyone thinks swiss do really really much dark secret busineses that no one knows and if someone hesr ir they dont believe it cause switzerland is so perfect everyone thinks but its not and its totally not neutral they sanctioned russia

  11. Credit suisse getting what they deserve isn‘t uncanny to me

    I doubt they are as important for the economy anymore as well. We should focus on other, more reliable companies and/or sectors instead that make the economy grow.. without the corrupting ruzzian/american influences if possible

  12. This is actually very sad. We need to get our act together. We’ve been successful for some time but our competitive advantage is slowly being eroded.

    We have always been a bastion of stability. Have we given up too many of our key points of success to placate economic allies? Or have we moved to slowly in an increasingly globalised world?

  13. We may be laughing around, but these aren’t unrelated events. Swiss have proven again and again their unwillingness to change when the world moves around them. We are nowhere near the end of the line.

  14. With the rise of interest rates by central banks, our papy-booming population (with low natility compared to other European nations) and the huge debts of individuals, the Swiss real estate market might be next.

    I hope it won’t happen …

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