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Ask the next 10 people you see on the streets, "Hey, do you think it's worthwhile to spend billions of Swiss francs looking for the Higgs boson?"
And yet we're spending billions of Swiss francs on this problem.
For every time that you announce that you had a tails throw, you get paid five francs.
So if you say I had two tails throws, you get paid 10 francs.
If you say you had zero, you get paid zero francs.
If you say, "I had four tails throws," then you get paid 20 francs.
You leave 20 francs on the table by announcing zero.
In June 1943 she landed in Angers, south of Paris, and made her way to the city armed with a false passport, a pistol and a few French francs.
They get away with several hundred million francs worth of jewels, but a jewel offered to a dancer by Cesar brings their haul to the attention of a trio of brutal brothers.
The heist proffers a meagre half million francs, way less than their sources had suggested, despite this and with the police in chase they both make it to Nice, where they hideout briefly.
I do not miss the 45 francs this poor thing cost me : sometimes, one has to reset its evaluation system looking at the absolute zero.
Mortgages in Swiss francs and car loans in Japanese yen have been common throughout the region.
But, despite the central bank’s attempts to calm the markets – which cost roughly 140 billion francs ($151 billion) – the franc appreciated by more than 20% against the euro.
In September 2011, Switzerland’s central bank surrendered, pegging the franc against the common currency at a rate of 1.20 francs per euro.
It continues to cause untold suffering in the US, where millions of homeowners have lost their homes, and is now threatening millions more in Poland and elsewhere who took out loans in Swiss francs.
In fact, ITER is a big instrument for fundamental research, so its €500 million Euros annual cost needs to be compared with similar scientific initiatives, such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which costs one billion Swiss francs per year.
On August 15, 2011, Hildebrand’s wife, Kashya, exchanged 400,000 Swiss francs into dollars.
Central Banks around the world promised that their respective domestic currencies (British pounds, U.S. dollars, French Francs, etc.) could be converted into gold at a fixed exchange rate, even though they did not have enough gold to guarantee the commitment fully.
Exceptions like Hungary, where homeowners had foolishly borrowed in seemingly cheap euros and Swiss francs, proved the rule.
When tourists from the United Kingdom traveled to France, Italy, or Spain, they faced restrictions on how many francs, lire, or pesetas they could buy; and international investment was constrained by a pervasive system of capital controls.
With the help of import licensing, then-Finance Minister Konan Bédié earned his first billion CFA francs within a year.
A country with a large initial trade deficit would expect to see its currency decline relative to the euro, say, to 1.2 “new francs” per euro, which would make its products 20% cheaper than products in other euro countries and would make imports more expensive.
But the Swiss reported losses of 14 billion francs in the first half of 2010, without succeeding in stemming exchange-rate appreciation.
If the Japanese firm sets the price in Swiss francs, it is exposed to price risk as the yen price will fluctuate with the yen-Swiss franc exchange rate.
If the Japanese firm sells its goods to a particular Swiss market dominated by Swiss firms (which invoice in Swiss francs), it would prefer to price in Swiss francs too.
Germany’s Bundesbank, it was suggested, would stand ready to buy “unlimited quantities” of lire or francs, so no one would dare to short either currency.
It was impossible to short the lira or the franc because there were no more lire or francs.
Big Swiss banks fund themselves in Swiss francs, because so many people everywhere want the security of franc assets.
When the exchange rate changes abruptly, the banks face large losses – a large-scale version of naive Hungarian homeowners’ strategy of borrowing in Swiss francs to finance their mortgages.
During times of global financial market stress, there was a flight not only to US dollars (the global reserve currency), but also to yen (and swiss francs).
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