Gonzalo Ciruelos

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The Bank of England, the Banque de France, the Reserve Bank of India: all started as private corporations and were nationalized over the course of the twentieth century. The Swiss National Bank, founded in 1907, never was. Its shares still trade on the SIX Swiss Exchange.

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What is the roundest country?

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We can define roundness in many ways. For example, as you may know, the circle is the shape that given a fixed perimeter maximizes the area. This definition has many problems. One of the problems is that countries generally have chaotic perimeters (also known as borders), so they tend to be much longer than they seem…