There is a common fallacy, not least in Germany, that dropping the Greeks would be a fairly costless way to teach a useful lesson.

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As moaning is costless, a chorus of wailing customers is predictable.

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This would be a costless foreign policy that would very much boost our security for free trade among countries remaining the single best foreign policy of all.

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And as to his point about the difference between civil cases and criminal cases, I would just say that if you have a costless privilege that always wins, then what incentive is there not to use it beyond the narrow bounds for which it was formulated.

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In a digitized world, duplication and distribution are relatively costless.

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There was a time, back in the 1950s and 1960s, when Keynesian stimulus packages were seen as costless.

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