Author Archives: dselz

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Husband, father, internet entrepreneur, founder, CEO, Squirro, Memonic, local.ch, Namics, rail aficionado, author, tbd...

Europe’s Youth: No hang loose but lose lose

Posted on 29 January 2012 by dselz

On Friday I interviewed three great candidates for an opening as Marketing Intern* here at Memonic. Three very different career paths joined by a similar conjecture: All in their early thirties, from three different countries, finding that Europe has no … Continue reading →

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Once the corner stone of Switzerland the FDP today is detached

Posted on 22 January 2012 by dselz

Once the FDP – the (in a European sense) liberals – was the corner stone of Switzerland. Their forefathers founded Switzerland and ruled it for roughly 150 years. For the last twenty years they are in permanent (terminal?) decline. An obvious … Continue reading →

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A foaming Roger Köppel and North Korean Propaganda Methods

Posted on 10 January 2012 by dselz

Roger Köppel, editor, publisher & owner of the right wing publication Weltwoche pushed a smear campaign that lead to the resignation of Philipp Hildebrand, the president of the Swiss National Bank. The methods employed are smear tactics at its worst … Continue reading →

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Intolerable behavior of Blocher & his right wing trolls

Posted on 9 January 2012 by dselz

Today Hildebrand, president of the Swiss National Bank quit his job. After a relentless campaign against him by Mr Blocher from the right wing party SVP, he took his leave. In the process Switzerland lost her probably most prominent and … Continue reading →

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On important and unimportant matters

Posted on 4 January 2012 by dselz

The media frenzy on the Swiss National Bank president or the German State President completely outshines any serious topic. A little rant on irresponsible media and society. More in German.

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A little campaign to bring down the Swiss National Bank president

Posted on 4 January 2012 by dselz

The president of the Swiss National Bank is embroiled in a scandal involving his wife and some dollar purchases at inconvenient moments. Big fuss ensued. Yet the some questions remain unanswered so far. More in German.

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10 theses on the future of newspapers

Posted on 28 December 2011 by dselz

Much has been written about the future of newspapers. Here my humble contribution: In a complex world people turn to trusted sources of information for news, analysis and comment, e.g. newspapers. The unique value of a newspaper is its editorial staff … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet, Organizations, PracticalEconomics | 3 Comments

In the sleeping coach through the elections for the government

Posted on 14 December 2011 by dselz

Elections to the Swiss national government are as always comparable to a comfy ride in a comfortable sleeping coach. Nothing much interrupts your journey until waking up at the destination and realizing that not much changed. Well after all that … Continue reading →

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Bruno Zuppiger is toast – Today’s conspiracy theory

Posted on 8 December 2011 by dselz

Bruno Zuppiger, candidate for the Swiss government was today accused by the Weltwoche, a weekly newspaper, to have embezzled an heritage of CHF 250’000. He claims an error happened but everything has been settled with no dammage to any party involved. … Continue reading →

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Helmut Schmidt on Europe’s Future

Posted on 7 December 2011 by dselz

Helmut Schmidt’s speech on Europe is both crisp and concise. It is the speech on the future of Europe that quite a many active European politician should have held long ago.

Posted in Politics, PracticalEconomics, Society | 2 Comments