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gilj | 8 years ago

Just a small off-topic comment: the Swiss Franc is not as stable as you think. For example, it used to be pegged (as in, CHF 1 was supposed to be worth EUR 1.2), but in recent history the Swiss Central Bank decided to unpeg the CHF to EUR, seemingly out of the blue.

Some reading: - https://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/01/e... - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-swiss-franc-shock/three-y...

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mseebach|8 years ago

Yes... But since we're off-topic, running with the thread for a bit, the kind of upset caused by the euro/franc un-peg is entirely inside the boundaries of "stable" in the context of the kind of country for which just adopting another nations currency is an attractive choice.