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Friday, June 3, 2011

Fact of the Day: Circulating Dollars

Q: What percentage of the trillions of dollars in our country exists in the form of actual currency?

A: Less than 10%.  The rest is digital or notational 0 it's written down somewhere.  And about half of those trillions of digital dollars bounces around between lcoatiosn every business day.

-Marilyn vos Savant

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