{"id":545,"date":"2011-03-14T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/so-just-how-big-is-the-worlds-gold-industry\/"},"modified":"2011-03-14T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T12:07:22","slug":"so-just-how-big-is-the-worlds-gold-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/so-just-how-big-is-the-worlds-gold-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"So just how big is the world&#039;s gold industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseyresearch.com\/articles\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-mkt-cap-600x398.jpg\" alt=\"gold-mkt-cap\" title=\"gold-mkt-cap\" width=\"600\" height=\"398\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wake-up-call-1.gif\" alt=\"wake-up-call\" title=\"wake-up-call\" width=\"514\" height=\"376\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wake-up-call-1.gif 514w, https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/wake-up-call-1-300x219.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><br \/>\n&#8220;According to estimates by Shayne McGuire in his new book, Hard Money; Taking Gold to a Higher Investment Level, the typical pension fund holds about 0.15% of its assets in gold. He estimates another 0.15% is devoted to gold mining stocks, giving us a total of 0.30% \u2013 that is, less than one third of one percent of assets committed to the gold sector.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caseyresearch.com\/cdd\/appetite-gold\">read more<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>I wonder what the situation here in Australia is?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-au-1.gif\" alt=\"gold-au\" title=\"gold-au\" width=\"441\" height=\"402\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-au-1.gif 441w, https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/gold-au-1-300x273.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/australian-gold.com\/gold-shares-explorers.html\">ASX listed Australian gold explorers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/australian-gold.com\/gold-shares-producers-miners.html\">ASX listed Australian gold producers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/bullion.html\">Australian gold bullion<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/buying.html\">Buying Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/Charts.html\">Gold Charts in Australian Dollars<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/australian-gold-mining-production.html\">Mining Gold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/warrants.html\">Australian gold warrants <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/securities.html\">Australian gold bullion securities <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/australian-gold.com\/dealers.html\">Australian gold bullion &amp; coin dealers <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/nuggets.html\">Australian gold nuggets<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/resources.html\">Gold, Mining &amp; Investment Resources<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/Charts.html\">Gold Charts in Australian Dollars<\/a> : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/Charts.html\">U.S. Dollars<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;According to estimates by Shayne McGuire in his new book, Hard Money; Taking Gold to a Higher Investment Level, the typical pension fund holds about 0.15% of its assets in gold. He estimates another 0.15% is devoted to gold mining stocks, giving us a total of 0.30% \u2013 that is, less than one third of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}