Indian households gain $700 billion from their gold buying spree in last 15 years

The article appeared first appeared online on The Hindu Business Line on April 27, 2025.

When John Pierpont Morgan, Founder of the world’s largest bank by market capitalisation JP Morgan & Co, said ‘Gold is money. Everything else is credit’, little would he have known that no one would come to understood this better than ‘Indian housewives.’ In a recent post on X, veteran banker Uday Kotak lauded ‘Indian housewife’ as the smartest fund manager in the world for importing the ‘forever store of value’ – gold, into the country while the developed markets’ central banks and governments took to money printing. This compliment is well earned if one looks at the staggering numbers…

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