Finding the Money
Finding the Money
Overview
Can a new economic theory revolutionize our ability to tackle the climate crisis? An underdog group of economists is on a mission to instigate a paradigm shift, by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. With a ‘debt ceiling’ debate and threat of default taking over headlines for the past six months in the US, many people find themselves asking - what is the national debt anyways? And why would the issuer of the US dollar ever need to borrow US dollars in the first place? With the enormous challenges of climate change and humanely caring for people on the horizon, the biggest obstacle presented is usually the question: ‘But how will we pay for it?” and “Where will we find the money?” According to Stephanie Kelton, face of the new economic theory known as “Modern Monetary Theory” or MMT, those aren’t the right questions to be asking a currency issuing nation.
Cast
Stephanie Kelton
Lua K. Yuille
Mathew Forstater
Fadhel Kaboub
Delman Coates
Jason Furman
Warren Mosler
Pavlina Tcherneva
Randall Wray
Crew
Maren Poitras
Marc Smolowitz
Maren Poitras
Richard Levien
Maren Poitras
Ines Hofmann Kanna
Maren Poitras
Douglas Blush
Eric Breon
Geoff Coventry
Bryce Smith
Marvin Solberg
Andrew Gross
Gil Talmi
