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🫡 Neutral, Durable, and Now Rich

🫡 Neutral, Durable, and Now Rich

Switzerland builds boring champions, France gives speeches.

13 Juil 2026

🧮 Count Like a Swiss

🧮 Count Like a Swiss

The Migros ad that misstated “septante” and triggered a nation.

6 Juil 2026

💸 Dollar Doom Loopers, Meet Cheese

💸 Dollar Doom Loopers, Meet Cheese

When boring is a feature, not a bug, for global money.

29 Juin 2026

🇨🇭 Switzerland Will Host Your War

🇨🇭 Switzerland Will Host Your War

The United States and Iran spent the year at war. Now they're at a Swiss mountain resort, trying to salvage a ceasefire neither side trusts. The resort has seen this before.

22 Juin 2026

🇨🇭 Switzerland Doesn’t Do Strongmen

🇨🇭 Switzerland Doesn’t Do Strongmen

A housing crunch this tight would hand any other country to a demagogue. Here it just gets a ballot paper.

15 Juin 2026

🧳 G7 Checks In, Switzerland Checks IDs

🧳 G7 Checks In, Switzerland Checks IDs

Welcoming border controls, but not a seat for Switzerland.

8 Juin 2026

😏 Congrats on Your $10B Rounding Error

😏 Congrats on Your $10B Rounding Error

World’s top wealth hub claims victory by an asterisk

1 Juin 2026

🇨🇭 Swiss Space: No Drama, Just Data

🇨🇭 Swiss Space: No Drama, Just Data

No national champion, just laser-focused hardware and zero slogans.

25 Mai 2026

🏭 The Queue is the Factory

🏭 The Queue is the Factory

Flipping a Swatch is now a minimum wage gig.

18 Mai 2026

🇨🇭 France Hosts the G7. Switzerland Pays for It.

🇨🇭 France Hosts the G7. Switzerland Pays for It.

A masterclass in outsourcing the awkward parts of being a great power.

11 Mai 2026

🎩 Houdini Energy Security

🎩 Houdini Energy Security

Europe escapes blackmail by making itself...un-blackmailable.

4 Mai 2026

🔨 Geneva Is Destroying Its Streets on Purpose

🔨 Geneva Is Destroying Its Streets on Purpose

CHF1.5B of construction hell, approved by 80% of voters, with a payoff date of 2043. This is not normal.

27 Avr 2026