Voices for the Future: Finding the Money

There's another side to the national debt

Voices for the Future is a podcast series that I co-host with my collaborator Anodea Judith.

The next program is this Tuesday, January 9th at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific with documentary filmmaker Maren Poitras. The name of the program is Finding the Money: There's Another Side to the National Debt--this also happens to be the name of Maren's new feature film documentary.

You can attend for free on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82206301219

Maren Poitras's feature documentary debut is Finding the Money, which world premiered at Woodstock Film Festival 2023, and received the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Green Film Festival of San Francisco. It will be widely available in May 2024. 

Maren Poitras

Originally from the California Bay Area, Maren has a background in environmental science and agriculture from UC Berkeley. She is Associate Producer with Codebreaker Films on Enemies of the State (2020) and Reality Winner (2023). 

The central question Finding the Money asks is this: Can a new economic theory revolutionize our ability to tackle the climate crisis, wealth inequality, a substandard health care system and other issues, and help create a more equitable and fair society? 

An underdog group of economists is on a mission to do so and instigate a paradigm shift by flipping our understanding of the national debt — and the nature of money — upside down. 

Finding the Money follows former chief economist to Senator Bernie Sanders, Stephanie Kelton, on a journey through Modern Money Theory or "MMT," to unveil a deeper story about money, injecting new hope and empowering democracies around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.

After the film was shown this past October at the Bend, OR Film Festival, the Bend Film Team said: "In an era of dismantling old ideas and exploring alternative solutions, the relevance and timeliness of this doc is remarkable. A conversation starter and an underdog story about money and economy." 

You can learn more about the film and watch a trailer here: Finding the Money film. 

This will be a program that shows how the solutions to the issues we face are right in front of us, and all it takes is to shift the paradigm and do away with old, antiquated ideas. Again, it takes place next Tuesday, January 9 at 7pm Eastern/4pm Pacific on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82206301219