In 1971, a 1,000 Swiss franc note could be used to buy almost 6 ounces of gold. Today, this same note doesn't even buy them anymore. a third party. In half a century, the franc has lost nearly 95 % of its real value against the only monetary standard that never lies. Even the so-called “strongest currency in the world” has been eaten away to the bone - slowly, silently, methodically. This is not a fluctuation. This is a masked collapse.
🇨🇭 The Swiss franc is no longer a strong currency - it's a slowly diminishing one
In 1971, a 1,000 Swiss francs made it possible to buy 5.88 ounces of fine gold.
Today, this same ticket only buys around 0.3 ounces.
The calculation is implacable:
The Swiss franc lost 94.9 % of its value against gold.
This figure should have the effect of a national electroshock. It means that in half a century, even the currency reputed to be the most solid in the world has been eroded almost entirely by the modern monetary system. It was not gold that “exploded”. It is paper money that has degraded.
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The lie of “strong” money”
We keep hearing that the franc is “strong”. In reality, it is only lower than others. Compared with gold - the only true universal monetary reference for 5,000 years - the verdict is clear: the franc has collapsed.
Since 1971, all the world's currencies have been based on the debt, unlimited money creation and manipulation of interest rates. Switzerland is no exception. It is simply orchestrating this depreciation with more discipline, more technicality... and more discretion.
Moderate“ annual inflation over 50 years is enough to slowly confiscating the savings of an entire people. It's a gentle form of despoilment, with no visible violence, but it's extremely effective.
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The SNB: guarantor of stability... or dilution machine?
Since 2008, the Swiss National Bank's balance sheet has grown from around 100 billion to almost 800 billion francs. It has become one of the most exposed central banks in the world :
-massive purchases of foreign currency
-colossal investments in US equities
-structural dependence on global financial markets
What for?
To prevent the franc from rising.
To protect exports.
To artificially support a model that has become structurally dependent on printing money.
Meanwhile :
-property is becoming unaffordable,
-Savings no longer provide protection,
-younger generations no longer have a heritage base.
The currency has remained “stable” on the face of it... but the economic independence of citizens is diminishing every year.
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Gold, the only revealer of truth
While gold is being ridiculed in the public discourse, the SNB itself depends on it to save its accounts. The National Bank's biggest recent profits have not come from bonds or currencies - they have come from gold.
It's a silent confession:
when all else fails, all that's left is the metal.
Gold does not lie. It promises nothing. It does not vote. It does not make speeches.
He simply records, year after year, the structural failure of political currencies.
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What the franc's fall against gold really reveals
The ratio 5.88 → 0.3 is not a technical figure.
It is a economic indictment.
It shows that :
-Swiss monetary stability has become a artificial stability,
-real purchasing power has been sacrificed to the global financial system,
-monetary sovereignty has shifted from citizens to markets.
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Conclusion - The real scandal is not gold. It's the loss of monetary reality.
A people that no longer measures the real value of its currency is gradually losing out:
-savings capacity,
-economic autonomy,
-freedom of transmission,
-and ultimately... its political sovereignty.
The day the Swiss understand that their 1,000 franc note is now just a fragment of gold, then the monetary debate will finally be able to move beyond technocratic circles and become, once again, a debate on the future of the euro. a popular, vital and democratic issue.
Because a nation that no longer has control over the real value of its currency is a nation that is already beginning to submit quietly.