Switzerland

From a Swiss point of view, it must be hard to imagine how fascinating, thrilling and attractive the small-scale political structure of the country appears from the outside – and …

Europe’s central bank has manoeuvred itself into a hole and the introduction of quantitative easing shows that it won’t stop digging.

If you are a gold bug, and if you think the majority of the Swiss are too, you might want to consider adding some of the yellow stuff to your portfolio.

The EU always had a strange relationship with democracy, not least because it does not always generate the results EU officials would like to see.

The strong link between local government finance and housing development fully explains why German and Swiss house prices have been steady for decades.

The enormous Swiss currency reserves are a direct result of the euro crisis as the SNB is fighting an uphill battle to stabilise the Swiss Franc against the weakening euro.

This financial nightmare began with millions of Americans’ dreams of owning their own homes.

Martin Wolf, economics editor of the Financial Times, recently commented that over the past ten years the value of his house had increased by the equivalent of five years of his post-tax salary.