Sideways Film

What if the national debt isn’t debt at all? Economist Stephanie Kelton takes on the money myths that shape our politics, igniting a firestorm as critics call her ideas ‘voodoo economics’. Through Modern Monetary Theory, or “MMT”, Kelton argues that the National Debt Clock ticking upwards in New York City is not a debt for taxpayers at all, but simply a record of dollars created by the US federal government and held as assets by the rest of us. A provocative, hopeful film about who pays, and what we could afford to fix, from climate change to inequality.