Finding the Money

Finding the Money

There's another side to the national debt.

2024 en 95 minutes

Rating: 6.4

Plot

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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Cast

Stephanie Kelton

Stephanie Kelton

Self

Lua K. Yuille

Lua K. Yuille

Self

Mathew Forstater

Mathew Forstater

Self

Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub

Self

Delman Coates

Delman Coates

Self

Jason Furman

Jason Furman

Self

Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler

Self

Pavlina Tcherneva

Pavlina Tcherneva

Self

Randall Wray

Randall Wray

Self

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