{"id":136462,"date":"2025-12-28T01:20:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/?p=136462"},"modified":"2025-12-28T01:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:25:37","slug":"from-safe-haven-investment-to-geostrategic-weapon-who-owns-the-most-gold-and-where-are-the-bars-kept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/from-safe-haven-investment-to-geostrategic-weapon-who-owns-the-most-gold-and-where-are-the-bars-kept\/","title":{"rendered":"From safe-haven investment to geostrategic weapon: Who owns the most gold and where are the bars kept?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gold has been a symbol of wealth for thousands of years. While humans have used all sorts of instruments as money (salt, coins, banknotes, or now, algorithms), no asset even comes close to matching its historical significance. And popular culture is also full of references to the precious metal. These include historical references, like the Moscow gold sent by the Spanish Second Republic to the USSR, and television references, such as the success of the\u00a0series\u00a0Money Heist<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Gold has been a symbol of wealth for thousands of years. While humans have used all sorts of instruments as money (salt, coins, banknotes, or now, algorithms), no asset even … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1549,"featured_media":136465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,54,58,1879,5,47],"tags":[1734,1881,2884,1842],"class_list":["post-136462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-continental-europe","category-finance-sector","category-government","category-money","category-news","category-north-america","tag-central-banking","tag-federal-reserve","tag-gold","tag-reserve-banking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1549"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.themintmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}