Second Life's $1.6mm Spent Today...

I was reading my RSS feeds this morning and saw a very interesting posting from the Second Life Herald about the total amount of dollars spent in Second Life during the last 24 hours.  The number seems extremely high to me as the virtual world has about 1mm residents and has been around for a few years... but it's doing $1.6mm USA Dollars in transactions. 

Apparently, if you pass around money with a zero sum total, it registers those transactions and adds them into the total money spent.  Knowledgeable users of Second Life can write scripts that pass money back and forth all day and increase the total amount of money spent in the virtual world... with having a pure zero sum transaction.

Makes me wonder...  original article is here.