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Finding the Money Q&As: 5/14: Q&A with Director Maren Poitras; 5/15: Q&A with Stephanie Kelton, Cory Doctorow, and filmmaker Maren Poitras; 5/16: Q&A with Stephanie Kelton, Harry Shearer, and filmmaker Maren Poitras.
Finding the Money
Explodes the myth of deficit spending.
Finding the Money
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 U.S., many people find themselves asking - what is the national debt anyway? And why would the issuer of the U.S. dollar ever need to borrow U.S. 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.
Genre
Documentary,
Politics & World Affairs,
Environment
Runtime
95
Language
English
Director
Maren Poitras
Opening at
Claremont 5 on May 14th
NoHo 7 on May 15th
Royal on May 16th