Quote from uexkuell:
Don't know if you have ever been to Switzerland.
Now the situation is like this:
Everything in this country is much more expensive than in the neighbour countries (e.g. Germany, France, Italy).
This holds for goods as well as labour.
Switzerland is highly dependend on export (even more than Germany) and Tourism.
EUR/CHF at levels of 1.0, 1.1, even 1.2 are poison for their economy.
Tourists won't come, Swiss people are buying in the neighbour countries (only 1/2 hour driving away in many parts), export is killed.
Therefore if these levels persist there won't be much left of swiss economy.
What's a currency worth if the underlying economy is dead?
This CHF upvaluation is a complete bubble with even less substance than the gold bubble.