Finding the Money | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provo | dG1fUjQ3aF91eC1uRTg

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00:00So much of the public discourse, it's like we're going through life with one eye shut and one eye open.

00:07And we're only getting half the picture.

00:09And then somebody like me comes in and says, let's make sure we see the whole picture.

00:16People naturally think, wait, government deficit debt, this is a negative thing, let's stop this right now.

00:22And I say, hang on, let's open the other eye.

00:24The government debt is not a burden on anyone.

00:27The national debt is exactly the opposite of what the orthodox story tells us.

00:33This modern monetary theory.

00:35Modern monetary theory.

00:37What is MMT about and why has it suddenly exploded?

00:41The last thing we need is some harebrained theory.

00:43We're broke.

00:44America's broke.

00:45Congress has spent all the money.

00:47Does the government have to borrow dollars?

00:49No, of course not.

00:51They don't find the money, they create it.

00:53Is that what they do?

00:55Where does money come from?

00:56There's a theory that says we should not be looking too closely at money.

01:00Didn't they tell you?

01:01You never touch the money question.

01:03You're going to scare the hell out of everyone.

01:07You could take the national debt clock that scares everyone and just rename it the U.S. dollar savings clock.

01:15So now don't you feel better?

01:17The true story of money is not the story that I've been told.

01:26The U.S. Money Reserve