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FINDING THE MONEY follows Stephanie Kelton on a journey through the controversial 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 mainstream media, with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists and politicians 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 democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.
Original Release
05/03/2024
US Release
05/03/2024
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Cast
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Stephanie Kelton | Self / Self - Professor of Economics and Public Policy Stony Brook University |
Lua K. Yuille | Self / Self - Professor of Law & Business, Northeastern University, 'MMT' school of thought |
Mathew Forstater | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 'MMT' school of thought |
Randall Wray | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 'MMT' school of thought |
Jared Bernstein | Self - Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, President Joseph Biden |
Fadhel Kaboub | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Denison University, 'MMT' school of thought |
David M. Walker | Self - Comptroller General of the United States 1998 - 2008, CEO Pete G. Peterson Foundation 2008 - 2010 |
Zach Helfand | Self - Journalist, The New Yorker |
Pavlina Tcherneva | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Bard College, 'MMT' school of thought |
David Andolfatto | Self - Vice President, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank 2009 - 2022 |
Directors
Cast
Name | Character |
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Stephanie Kelton | Self / Self - Professor of Economics and Public Policy Stony Brook University |
Lua K. Yuille | Self / Self - Professor of Law & Business, Northeastern University, 'MMT' school of thought |
Mathew Forstater | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City, 'MMT' school of thought |
Randall Wray | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, 'MMT' school of thought |
Jared Bernstein | Self - Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors, President Joseph Biden |
Fadhel Kaboub | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Denison University, 'MMT' school of thought |
David M. Walker | Self - Comptroller General of the United States 1998 - 2008, CEO Pete G. Peterson Foundation 2008 - 2010 |
Zach Helfand | Self - Journalist, The New Yorker |
Pavlina Tcherneva | Self / Self - Professor of Economics, Bard College, 'MMT' school of thought |
David Andolfatto | Self - Vice President, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank 2009 - 2022 |
Jason Furman | Self / Self - Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy, Harvard University Chair, Council of Economic Advisors, President Obama 2013 - 2016 |
Warren Mosler | Self / Self - CEO, Valance Company, Inc. Modern Monetary Theory Pioneer |
Olivier Blanchard | Self - Chief Economist, IMF 2008 - 2015 |
Peter Coy | Self - New York Times Opinion Writer |
Ben Holland | Self - Economics Editor, Bloomberg News |
David Dayen | Self - Executive Editor, The American Prospect |
Deborah Solomon | Self - Economics Editor, The New York Times |
Stuart Butler | Self - Senior Fellow, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution |
Delman Coates | Self / Self - Senior Pastor, Mt. Ennon Baptist Church Founder, Our Money |
George Selgin | Self - Director Emeritus, Cato Institute, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives |
Producers
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Douglas Blush | Executive Producer |
Eric Breon | Executive Producer |
Geoff Coventry | Executive Producer |
Marc Smolowitz | Executive Producer |
Marvin Solberg | Executive Producer |
Bryce Smith | Executive Producer |
Maren Poitras | Producer |
Ines Hofmann Kanna | Producer |