Finding the Money

Finding the Money by Maren Poitras

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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 as Self

Lua K. Yuille

Lua K. Yuille as Self

Mathew Forstater

Mathew Forstater as Self

Fadhel Kaboub

Fadhel Kaboub as Self

Delman Coates

Delman Coates as Self

Jason Furman

Jason Furman as Self

Warren Mosler

Warren Mosler as Self

Pavlina Tcherneva

Pavlina Tcherneva as Self

Randall Wray

Randall Wray as Self

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