I bet the cost of issuing money costs me less than I spend individually on Booze, cigarets, rent, food, clothing, baby toys, cable TV, internet, or diapers in the next year. Quantify it for me or it doesn't exist (ie. you watched a documentary of people that were full of gas, but have no other idea of what you are talking about). Are you talking about the FED? I really can't tell, you said some things while saying nothing, compare it to another system? Tell us how it should run. I think trying to allocate capital to endeavors where it will garner the greatest return is a pretty good way to expand the money supply, seems egalitarian to me, not that egalitarianism is the goal. I really think that we need to support people with social services in a non egalitarian way via taxes, but that is a different subject.