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Who Owns the Most Gold Privately?
John Paulson
Ray Dalio
Indian Families
Stanley Druckenmiller
Eric Sprott
The Royal Family of Saudi Arabia
The World Gold Council reports an estimated 208,874 metric tons of gold mined worldwide. Even knowing that, it’s impossible to estimate how much gold in the world remains. While there is plenty, much of this physical gold is too deep to mine. Experts estimate that at a rate of 3,000 metric tons per year, the world’s gold will last less than 18 years.
Reminds me of those perl programming days. I recently came upon an old laptop backup from those days. I had even built a complete venue booking site, with graphics and all, in pure perl. Reading that code now makes me want to immediately run to something simpler - like decoding Q drops, kek.