FINDING THE MONEY will flip your understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. Feat. @StephanieKelton In Theaters On Demand May 3
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📢FINDING THE MONEY documentary now available WORLDWIDE!!
The film that will flip your understanding of the ‘national debt’ upside down.
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.@elonmusk: “If we don’t do something about this deficit, country’s going bankrupt!”
To get a bigger picture on how govt spending works, and the illegal Musk/Trump cuts-
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Bolton UK: Free/donation screening of FINDING THE MONEY documentary Friday Jan 31!
7:30pm 16 Wood St.
Followed by virtual Q&A
FINDING THE MONEY documentary screening w/ Q&A in Copenhagen, Denmark: Friday Jan 17!
At the Danish Film Institute @DanishFilm
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3 FREE Screenings this week of FINDING THE MONEY!
Oct 23: Australia, Wollongong Univ
Oct 23: Germany, Dresden Univ
Oct 24: UC Berkeley, 8pm- 130 Wheeler
All followed by Q&As!
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Where will the UK government ‘find the money’ with the £22 billion 'black hole'?
Hint: for a currency issuing govt like the UK, ‘finding the money’ is never the problem…
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Tax the Rich because they're taking more than their fair share of resources & power, not because we need their money to feed a hungry kid.
@StephanieKelton on @novaramedia in the UK:
Watching FINDING THE MONEY:
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Do we really need to tax the rich?
@AyoCaesar talks to @StephanieKelton.
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Ironically, one way to distinguish MMT from “vanilla Keynesianism” relates directly to the Q posed to Jared: why does the US government borrow its own currency?
MMTers know that it doesn’t borrow, and that the national debt is the nation’s money supply.
Pretty big distinction.
I'm glad to hear @StephanieKelton was not involved with the Jared interview.
Also glad to hear that MMTers agreed with some of the things the Biden Admin did. I can assure folks MMT was not our framework. Needs to be some way of distinguishing MMT from vanilla Keynesianism.
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How many people understand this?
When the government sells bonds, it’s not going deeper into debt. It’s changing the *composition* of federal obligations—fewer Fed liabilities and more Treasury liabilities.
If I shift US$ from checking to savings at my bank, no one complains that my bank is “borrowing” and piling on unsustainable “debt”.
But when US$ shift from reserve accounts (checking) at the Fed to securities accounts (savings) on the same ledger, suddenly words have new meaning.
Ask yourself why people insist on describing a very banal thing (swapping reserve balances for US Treasuries) in a way that riles everyone up.
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When it comes to a Green New Deal people ask: “How will you pay for it?”
As though we're not paying for it now in loss of life & billions of dollars in destruction.
The Green New Deal isn't radical.
Transforming our energy system saves lives, saves money & saves the planet.
The 'national debt' is already 'the money'. Gov does not create new money to "repay" the debt.
"A small group of progressive economists ...or M.M.T... argue that the Treasury can simply print enough money to repay the debt." - @DLeonhardt, @NYTimes
Regarding interest payments on the debt: Congress could decide tomorrow to stop issuing treasury bonds, not pay the interest (as a regressive give-away of FREE MONEY to those who already have money), and not have this thing we call the 'national debt'.
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Can we afford not to go extinct?
@NYTimes decides to focus on the 'national debt' today, in the midst of horrific #climate destruction
Watch FINDING THE MONEY doc for a new perspective on real limits and possibilities:
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Wow, this is really eye opening. The difference between a cat 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 hurricane 👀🫣
'We study economics so as not to be fooled by economists'
- @mattybram paraphrasing Joan Robinson
On the #climatecrisis and so much else.
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I watched FINDING THE MONEY last night. 🍿📺
Very worthwhile. MMT seems like one of the most important ideas of our time.
Didn't discuss student loan debt much, but otherwise good film. Thanks @StephanieKelton for spreading this important conversation.
plenty of folks who follow me vigorously agree, half-disagree, or fully disagree with @StephanieKelton -- regardless of what camp you are in this was a really fun and intellectually lively documentary that's worth watching and engaging with:
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