THREAD:
Switzerland is a strange country. On the surface it is a polished Disneyland. “Swissneyland”, a friend of mine likes to call it. At a closer look, it is the well-oiled PR machine of a corporation. This is a thread between a rant & trying to grasp the #CreditSuisse issue.
15y ago I was a journo newbie at a fin news agency in Zurich. My colleagues & I watched the shares of another bank plummet by the second – the UBS, the too-big-to-fail, the bailout, where the state saved a private company in order to save the economy. swissinfo.ch/eng/business/2…
Sep 5, 2022 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
This is a story about
a name (Viktor Urban),
a place (Switzerland/Hungary)
a mysterious document (a work registration).
It’s a tale about many things that didn’t add up – that left my amazing colleague @kelleralant & me in despair the more we went down the rabbit hole.
In the end, all we had in our hands was just a very odd backstory.
