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"Why anyone would want to hold physical gold (except for aesthetics) is beyond me."
I don't pretend to understand it either, h_rattle, but I do know that a LOT of gold, perhaps most of the gold ever mined, is held for reasons beyond those aesthetic. Hard for me to believe that central banks et al can be that wrong.
