Finding the Money

Finding the Money (2024)

Released: 2024-05-03 Duration: 1hr 35min
Genres: Documentary
Rating 6.3
There's another side to the national debt.

Overview

FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us. MMT bursts into the media with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”. FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.

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Additional Info

Budget $0.00
Revenue $0.00
Original Language en
Popularity 1.445

Directed By

Maren Poitras

Crew

Director
Maren Poitras
Consulting Producer
Ines Hofmann Kanna
Director of Photography
Maren Poitras
Executive Producer
Marc Smolowitz
Executive Producer
Geoff Coventry
Co-Executive Producer
Bryce Smith
Cinematography
Maren Poitras
Executive Producer
Eric Breon
Executive Producer
Douglas Blush
Music
Gil Talmi
Co-Executive Producer
Marvin Solberg
Sound Editor
Joel Raabe

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