The postwar Swiss economy was largely driven by high-value exports like precision tools and watches. This worked well in the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates that defined much of the postwar era. But when U.S. President Richard Nixon suspended the conversion of dollars into gold in 1971, currencies gradually began to “float” against one another. The dollar went into a steep decline.

Since the crisis, financing has become much more costly

Established parties are losing out as voters and politicians create their own political playlists

Chinese company Huawei is embedding itself into cable systems that ferry nearly all of the world’s internet data

As trade barriers break up world-wide supply chains, the real costs are higher prices and fewer choices for consumers