I’m dropping you a note from the UK, where Christmas events are starting to kick off and the country has entered that familiar annual phase of festive lights, Christmas parties and people insisting they’ve “nearly finished” their shopping.
It also happens to be a slightly accidental coincidence that this visit has landed at the exact moment we released findings from some research we commissioned here in the UK. We asked just over 2,000 UK adults (2,022 to be precise, surveyed 11–19 November 2025) how they’re feeling about the economy, the financial system, and what comes next.
And the mood is telling.
What struck me most is that a clear majority aren’t only worrying about the usual day to day issues. They’re worrying about the structure underneath it. In fact, 64% told us they’re concerned about another financial crisis in the next 12 to 24 months. That’s not “I hope interest rates come down” anxiety. That’s “I’m not sure the financial plumbing is as sturdy as it looks” anxiety.
When you ask people what they’d rather give someone right now, cash or gold, 55% say gold is the better gift. Which sounds like a conversation you’d expect to overhear in 1910, not 2025, and yet here we are.
Even more interesting, nearly two in five respondents, 38%, say they’ve already considered investing in gold in 2026. Not “one day, maybe”. Not “if I win the lottery”. But actually considered it as a practical move in the near future.
Even if you’re nowhere near the UK, this is still worth paying attention to. Because the point isn’t that Brits are uniquely nervous. It’s that when people in an ordinary developed economy start talking like this, quietly and pragmatically, it often reflects something broader. A growing sense that the old assumptions about safety, stability, and “normal markets” are not as dependable as they used to be.
That’s also why today’s GoldCoreTV video feels like it arrived at the perfect moment, even if we didn’t plan it that way. It’s called “The Real Cost of Not Holding Gold as 2025 Ends”, and it digs into a simple idea. For years, the mainstream critique of gold was that it has no yield, so holding it meant missing out. But going into 2026, the real question is starting to look more like this: what’s the cost of not holding anything outside the system, especially when stocks and bonds aren’t behaving the way they used to, and policy decisions feel increasingly improvised?
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