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If You Ask Me: A Global Banker Reflects on Our Times

Wriston, Walter B.

2007

Swiss Francs


	What is your opinion of dollar holdings against the Swiss franc?
	The Swiss franc really isn't a currency. It's a store of value. We don't have any trade with Switzerland that amounts to anything. It's a gold-backed currency of a very small country with a third of its labor force imported from abroad and almost no trade. What will happen to the Swiss franc opposite a real trade currency, I think is anybody's guess.

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The document was created from a compilation of interviews and question and answer segments with Walter B. Wriston which was later compiled into "If You Ask Me: A Global Banker Reflects on Our Times" in 1980. The original speech is located in MS134.001.034.00018.

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2007

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	If You Ask Me: A Global Banker Reflects on Our Times Rationale I: Getting Down to Fundamentals The Big Cop-out You Can't Go Bail for Everyone Risk Is What It's All About II: Some Basic Ills of the Body Politic Lincoln Wouldn't Have Made It Unpredictable Is a Dangerous Country The Pitfalls of Single-issue Politics Expect To Get Zapped The Perils of Legal Pollution The Injustice of Our Tax System Those Wonderful People Who Bring You Inflation Stop the Presses Silly Premises Lead to Nutty Conclusions Easier Said Than Done III: New York, New York New York City Is Alive And Well The Road Back IV: Careers Rx for Happiness Good Forward Planning Dull Job? A Simple Matter of Survival Making It at Citibank What Fast Track? No Hiding Place V: Once Around the World Quickly South Africa China: A Matter of Timing The Real Significance of Iran Iran and the Money Markets Fashions in Country-criticizing VI: The Global Financial Scene The Elusive Eurodollar De Facto Payments Mechanism Too Big To Move The Foreign Exchange Game They Can't Leave the System Baskets of Money Swiss Francs The Value of a Dollar Not a Loss Since 1897 A Rational View of LDC Loans Free Trade Benefits Consumers The Destructive Costs of Regulation The Big Rip-off A Real Entitlement Can Regulations Prevent Bum Loans? The Insidious Side of Controls Competition in Regulation VIII: The Shape of Things To Come Not As Big As You Think What Lobby? Armageddon Is Late, as Usual Some Simple Facts about Interest Rates An Expensive Luxury How Big Is Big? What We Did Yesterday Won't Work Tomorrow A Matter of Semantics Unpredictable Is a Dangerous Country Privacy: A Serious Problem The Unseen Revolution Things Are Going To Be Different Take the Handcuffs off Everybody The Gray Areas of Lending No Mouse under the Rug Thank God We Don't Have National Banking Competition Keeps You Awake Accounting for Loan Losses Not a Utility People Like It Computer Frauds Some Final Words on Responsibility Sources About the Author

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