Caesar's wife is supposed to be chaste, and clearly so is the wife of the chairman of the Swiss National Bank, the nation's central bank.

Back in the summer, when the Swiss franc was super strong against the dollar, Philipp Hildebrand's wife Kashya, bought $504,000 with Swiss francs.

A few weeks later the SNB, headed by Hildebrand, intervened to weaken the currency by cutting interest rates to zero. In early October, the family used the dollars it had purchased in the summer to buy the now cheaper francs and complete the purchase of a home. In the month and a half they held dollars they made a tidy profit.  The Guardian puts the figure at $80,000.

The Swiss federal court rejected the man's appeal, ruling that hiking in the nude qualified as public indecency, reported the BBC.

The rambler had appealed to the court to overturn a 100-franc ($109) fine he received in October 2009, after practicing his hobby in Appenzell-Ausserrhoden canton in eastern Switzerland.

A woman complained to police about the sight of a naked man wandering past a family picnic area, said The Local. The citizens of the conservative canton, "tired of seeing people walking naked in their mountains," had voted earlier that year to outlaw the practice.

But the man refused to pay the fine, leading to a series of legal wrangles over whether the canton's authorities had to right to ban nude walking.