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Switzerland's currency is quite strong and considered a safe heaven. Do you think Switzerland has the capability or would invade another country to collected ta
by sschueller 5y ago
Switzerland's currency is quite strong and considered a safe heaven. Do you think Switzerland has the capability or would invade another country to collected tax from a few billion people?
- jrochkind1 5y agoI am not an expert in how currencies work, but it's worth nothing that Switzerland, like most countries, keeps most of it's own reserves in USD (presumably treasury bills), and has around 1 trillion in USD in reserve. Which is not unrelated to the value of it's own currency and their ability to stabilize it. But I am not claiming to be able to explain the details myself. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/switzerland/official-reserve-assets/official-reserve-assets-usd https://www.ceicdata.com/en/switzerland/official-reserve-ass...
- khuey 5y agoThat number you're looking at is "total Swiss foreign currency reserves in units of USD" not "Swiss foreign currency reserves that are USD". Switzerland, for reasons that are fairly obvious, holds large Euro reserves. At the end of 2020 USD was only ~35% of that total amount.
- jrochkind1 5y agoGood correction, thanks! Still 35% of reserves is plenty! I hadn't considered how many reserves have probably shifted to euros since the euro, that's actually a big deal for the US. Anyway...