“Restrained optimism characterizes the economic research body of the ETH Zurich, which predicts higher growth for Switzerland than the USA, EU and Japan, but lower than Germany. […] However, at 0.3% Swiss GDP was stagnating, according to Jan-Egbert Sturm.[…] Egbert apologized at the most recent prognoses conference for having believed the false figures of the USA for years; an early visit to Professor Fredmund Malik in St. Gallen could have shown him his error…” more (in German)