Gold, Inflation & Savings: Why Central Banks Keep Buying Gold

The Bullion Advantage | Wealth Protection, Politics and Finance Insights From The #1 UK Gold Dealer · Oct 1, 2026 · 20m · transcript

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Central banks manage the currencies we use every day. So why do many of them continue to hold — and increase — their physical gold reserves?

While your wealth increasingly exists as numbers on a screen, central banks are still allocating part of their reserves to something physical, scarce and outside the control of another currency issuer.

At the same time, inflation can reduce the purchasing power of your money and governments continue to carry enormous levels of debt.

So what do central banks understand about gold that some savers might be overlooking?

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