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Re:Switzerland government raises investment funds to support... by mschuster91 on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:14AM (#14701179)
> It can become a huge problem for an economy based on trading with neighbors.

Exactly. Switzerland has just 8.5M people living there, while the US has 322M and Germany 82M. If Germany were expensive, for example, it'd still have a sizable inner-country market while Switzerland does not.

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Re:Switzerland government raises investment funds to support... by remline on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @06:38AM (#14701305)
It changes what you try to do, but Switzerland and Germany isn't all that different from Silicon Valley and the US.

You use premium resources in Switzerland and try to sell German (or EU) resources back upon lower markets at a high enough volume and mark up to make the high market costs incidental.

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Re:Switzerland government raises investment funds to support... by throwawaymanbot on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @10:28AM (#14702648)
The EU has 510 Million.
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