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Release Date:
May 3, 2024
Original Title:
Finding the Money
Genres:
Documentary
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 95
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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Cinematography:
Maren Poitras
Co-Executive Producer:
Bryce Smith
Marvin Solberg
Consulting Producer:
Ines Hofmann Kanna
Director:
Maren Poitras
Director of Photography:
Maren Poitras
Editor:
Maren Poitras
Richard Levien
Executive Producer:
Marc Smolowitz
Douglas Blush
Eric Breon
Geoff Coventry
Music:
Andrew Gross
Gil Talmi
Simón Wilson
Sound Editor:
Joel Raabe
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