Finding the Money
“There's another side to the national debt.”
Storyline
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.
Cast & Crew
Stephanie Kelton
Self
LeadLua K. Yuille
Self
Mathew Forstater
Self
Fadhel Kaboub
Self
Delman Coates
Self
Jason Furman
Self
Warren Mosler
Self
Pavlina Tcherneva
Self
What People Are Saying
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Maren Poitras's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
“Every frame feels alive. Finding the Money is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
