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Uncle Sam goes for gold, too: Up to $9,900 per Olympic gold medal Like any prize winner â from a jackpot hitter to a Nobel Prize recipient â athletes are taxed because Olympic medals and the cash bonuses that come with them are considered income.
A recent spot price for gold was $256.10 U.S. -- using that number, all of the gold produced in a year is worth $12,805,000,000. That's a lot of money, but not an unimaginable amount. For example, that's about how much the Pentagon spent launching the GPS satellite system. NASA's budget in 1998 was $13.6 billion. Figuring out the total amount of gold that has been produced by man is a little harder. To get at some kind of estimate, let's figure that the world has been producing gold at 50 million ounces a year for 200 years.