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Let's see, there are approximately 1.22 trillion US dollars in circulation [1], so that would amount to a massive .001% of outstanding dollars. It may not come from "nowhere", but neither is it such a massively huge amount of money that it would necessarily register. Heck, that hedge fund (Knight Capital?) lost that in about 3 minutes a few years ago...

[1] - http://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12773.htm




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