关于黄金，你了解多少？
概述：作为最适合用作货币的金属，黄金的储量或许并没有你想象中那么多。
Hints:
World Gold Council
Marcus Grubb
'cause
St Paul's
Lehman Brothers
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答疑：幸福乞丐07
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口语节目链接：http://bulo.hujiang.com/menu/2120/item/854027/http://t1.g.hjfile.cn/listen/201312/201312080740511754950.mp3So where does the world get its gold? Well, the best people to answer that question are at the World Gold Council, the main trade body of the big gold mining companies, and it's based right here in London. I spoke to the head of the council's investment department Marcus Grubb.
Gold is a very interesting metal, 'cause a very large amount of supply comes from recycling. And there's no other metal where the recycling and the mining are similar in size. Where the mining comes from? South Africa in about 1970 and 1980 were three quarters of mine production. Today the largest country is China with about 14%. So gold production now is much more diverse.
So how much gold is there in the world?
The best guess is a cube about 20 and a half metres square. It's bit bigger than a house. But if you plonk it on the top of St Paul's, it will sort of replace the dome.
And the price has recently peaked, hasn't it?
Yes, well this is the first year were you going to see a decline in price in gold for 13 years.
There is a component which is insecurity. People are buying gold because they think it's a relatively secure asset in times of trouble.
Yes, those investors were buying gold as a sort of short-term portfolio insurance especially after the failure of Lehman Brothers since 2008. Now the reason that some of those investors have come out this year is because they're getting less worried. They think the financial system is now not fixed but it's healing, world economy starting to recover and the central banks come withdraw stimulus.那么全世界的金子从何而来？能准确回答这个问题的人就在世界黄金协会里，该组织是各大金矿公司的主要交易机构，就设立在伦敦。和我交谈的是该协会投资部的经理马尔库斯·格拉布。
黄金是一个很有趣的金属，因为其大部分的供给来源于回收利用。并且除他以外，也再没有一种金属的回收和矿藏大小相当。那么金矿在哪儿？南非曾经在1970年到1980年间囊括了世界3/4的金矿产量，今天，最大的金矿产国是中国，约为14%。所以如今的黄金产量更加分散了。
那么世界上到底有多少黄金？
比较好的形容是，大约20.5米边长形成的立方体那么大，稍微比一座房子大一些。如果你将它放在圣保罗大教堂顶部，它基本能覆盖屋顶。
最近黄金价格达到了顶峰，对吗？
是的，今年是13年以来金价第一次下跌。
购买黄金主要考虑市场的不安全性。人们将它作为骚乱时期相对安全的资产来保值。
是的，特别是在2008年雷曼兄弟破产后，投资者们购买黄金作为一种短期投资组合保险。今年投资者们退出黄金市场主要是他们的担忧正在减弱。他们认为目前的金融体系虽不完全稳定，但已在恢复阶段，世界经济也在反弹，各国央行撤出刺激计划。
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