By Ludovic Malot - entrepreneur & economist
There's one truth that no one in this country dares say: Switzerland was not built on its SMEs, but on the strongest currency in the West, backed by physical gold. As long as our franc was backed by a real asset, we were sovereign, respected and unassailable. Since we swapped 1,300 tonnes of gold for mountains of US debt, we have been walking blindly towards a precipice. A global currency crash would not be bad news for Switzerland - it would be its economic Hiroshima. That's why every Swiss citizen needs to read on: to understand why gold is the only strategic compass capable of safeguarding our freedom, our prosperity and our future.
🇨🇭 Gold: Switzerland's true strategic compass
There is a collective blindness that today threatens the prosperity and freedom of the Swiss people.
We are repeatedly told that our success is due to the genius of SMEs, political stability and Swiss pragmatism. All true - but secondary. The deep-rooted, almost forgotten driving force that has made Switzerland the most stable country in the world since 1848 is its monetary base. Historically, this foundation was called physical gold.
For over a century, gold has been the silent bulwark protecting our sovereignty, our savings, our industry, our wages and even our neutrality.
Today, we have sacrificed it on the altar of an illusion: that of a globalised financial system, based on cascading debts, unanchored fiat currencies and growing dependence on the United States.
The time has come to tell the truth, clearly: Switzerland must re-establish its strategic compass - gold - before it's too late.
1. A historical reminder: a country founded on metal, not debt
In 1848, the founders of the federal state laid down a simple rule:
sound money, backed by real assets, is a prerequisite for freedom.
This insight would shape 150 years of prosperity.
At its peak, Switzerland was home to 2,600 tonnes of gold, the largest per capita stock in the world. This was not a fetish: it was a national strategy. Gold guaranteed the solidity of the franc, financial discipline and lasting confidence in our economy.
Switzerland was rich because its currency was strong - not the other way round.
2. Strategic« sales in the 1990s: orchestrated plundering
In the 1990s and early 2000s, at a time when gold prices were at historic lows, the SNB - under political and international pressure - sold its gold holdings. more than half of Swiss reserves.
Ferdinand Lips, a former banker and renowned gold expert, denounced this at the time:
«Swiss gold was not sold for economic reasons, but for geopolitical reasons.»
The facts proved him right.
The pressure came from the IMF, the big Wall Street banks and the American authorities, who had every interest in weakening the monetary role of gold. The aim was clear: neutralise one of the last independent pillars of the global financial system.
It was one of the greatest strategic errors in modern Swiss history.
3. An SNB exposed to the US markets - and their systemic risks
Today, the SNB holds more than 360 billion dollars US securities - assets with no tangible value.
Bonds issued by a government whose debt has spiralled out of control.
A fiat currency that is no longer based on anything.
We have exchanged a thousand-year-old asset, indestructible, beyond the reach of crises...
... for paper.
Worse still, SNB audits are often entrusted to Anglo-Saxon firms with links to Wall Street.
The guardian of our monetary sovereignty is valued by those who benefit from our dependence.
This is a strategic aberration.
4. The ultimate risk: a global currency crash that wipes out our pension funds
A major financial crisis - like the one predicted by a growing number of economists - would cause the value of these US securities to evaporate in a matter of hours.
And with them :
-the SNB's assets,
-the country's reserves,
-Swiss pension funds invested in the United States,
-and a huge proportion of people's savings.
Without gold protection, Switzerland would find itself naked facing a global monetary tsunami.
It's an existential risk.
5. What Switzerland must do now
1. A fully independent audit of the SNB
Not by American firms.
Not by players linked to the financial markets.
By a panel of neutral Swiss and international experts with no conflicts of interest.
2. Massively reduce exposure to US equities
A healthy currency is not based on foreign debt.
«Gold is the sovereign of sovereigns». Antoine de Rivarol.
3. Replenish gold reserves
Minimum target : approach the historic threshold of 4,600 tonnes.
Gold is the only asset that really protects :
-against inflation,
-against political risk,
-against loss of confidence,
-against systemic collapse.
4. Remember that money is a political instrument - not a financial product
A nation that does not control the strength of its currency sooner or later loses control of its destiny.
Conclusion - Switzerland will not survive in an unstable world without gold
Switzerland has never been a major military power.
It became a major economic power because it had a unique weapon:
the solidity of its franc, the guarantor of freedom and sovereignty.
Today, this solidity is based on American paper.
We are playing roulette with the legacy of 1848.
The country needs to wake up.
Parliamentarians must take up this issue immediately.
An audit of the SNB and a national plan to rebuild gold reserves are essential - but not tomorrow, now.
Without a sound currency, there will be no prosperity, no independence and no direct democracy.
Gold is not the past.
It is the future of Swiss sovereignty.
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