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A Once in a Lifetime Reset

13 pages · 13 September 2026 · Felix Prehn

Central banks bought a record 289 tonnes of gold in a single quarter while the price fell 22 per cent. In the same period the BRICS group began building a gold-backed settlement system outside the dollar, and Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan published targets near $6,000 an ounce. The briefing connects the three developments to strain in the real economy which the AI boom has concealed.

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