Finding the Money (2024)
• May 3rd, 2024 • 1h 35min
Documentary
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Spokespeople
Released on: 2020-10-08
Documentary
For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our pr...
The Great Global Warming Swindle
Released on: 2007-03-08
Documentary
This film tries to blow the whistle on what it calls the biggest swindle in modern history: 'Man Mad...
We are fucked
Released on: 2021-04-18
Documentary
In the Netherlands, 200,000 young people are concerned about the end of the world and the major clim...
Earth: Muted
Released on: 2021-09-20
Documentary, Drama, TV Movie
Three farming families in Hanyuan, China, strive to give their children a good life in the midst of ...
Roger & Me
Released on: 1989-09-01
Documentary, History, Comedy
A documentary about the closure of General Motors' plant at Flint, Michigan, which resulted in the l...
An Inconvenient Truth
Released on: 2006-05-24
Documentary
A documentary on Al Gore's campaign to make the issue of global warming a recognized problem worldwi...
Confessions of a CEO: My Life in an Out-of-Balance World
Released on: 2025-01-10
Documentary
A bare-knuckled critique of corporate America told through the powerful true story of a toxic CEO wh...
Sicko
Released on: 2007-05-18
Documentary, Comedy, Drama
A documentary about the corrupt health care system in The United States who's main goal is to make p...
The 11th Hour
Released on: 2007-08-17
Documentary, Drama, Crime
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...
Empire City
Released on: 1985-07-01
Documentary, History
A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...
Money, Freedom, a Story of CFA Franc
Released on: 2022-11-09
Documentary, History
The former French colonies in Central and West Africa have been independent since 1960, but most of ...
ThuleTuvalu
Released on: 2014-11-13
Documentary
Thule, Greenland, also called Qaanaaqis, one of the northernmost towns in the world. As the climate ...
The Real Adam Smith: Ideas That Changed The World
Released on:
Documentary
The Real Adam Smith: A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg, takes an intriguing, two-part look at ...
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Released on: 2020-09-28
Documentary, Drama
The story of life on our planet by the man who has seen more of the natural world than any other. In...
Merchants of Doubt
Released on: 2014-11-08
Documentary
Spin doctors spread misinformation and confusion among American citizens to delay progress on such i...
Eating Our Way to Extinction
Released on: 2021-09-16
Documentary, Drama, Crime
With searing insight that shines light in dark corners, EATING OUR WAY TO EXTINCTION is a compelling...
Against the Tide
Released on: 2023-01-20
Documentary
Two friends, both Indigenous fishermen, are driven to desperation by a dying sea. Their friendship b...
The Take
Released on: 2004-09-03
Documentary
In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out ...
The Rise and Fall of American Business Culture
Released on: 1987-01-01
Documentary
This documentary from 1987 looks at the serious malaise that plagued the US manufacturing sector at ...