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Money as Debt I - Revised Edition 2009 (Full Movie)

Ethaniel RockX · 291.3K views · 2015-10-28 · 46:21

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Overview

An animated documentary by Paul Grignon explaining how modern money is created through bank lending as debt. This is a combined upload of the revised 2009 edition.

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HN commenters recommend it as a cartoonish but thorough explanation of the monetary system, though some critics dispute its claims.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2022

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Macroeconomics & financial crisesDocumentaries & storytelling
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What people said

jonplackett · 2020-03 · Strong recommendation

Anyone who wants to understand this insanity, I recommend MONEY AS DEBT [VIDEO] The first time I saw it I thought it was a luny conspiracy theory, but NO. It's all true.

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scirocco · 2020-03 · Strong recommendation

This is a good start, "Money as debt". Saw it in university and since then you will never take financial markets seriously. And all the "stimulus" we see is just pushing the can forward. You will start to see through a lot of lies. [VIDEO]

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zugi · 2022-08 · Recommendation

> Which in practice means there's literally never enough money in circulation to pay off the 'debt'. I always wondered why so many people were in so much debt, and was really shocked when I came to the understanding that we've designed our monetary system to trap people in debt. [VIDEO] is a cartoonish but thorough explanation for anyone who has the time. This system really is insane. I mean, I thought Bitcoin was dumb because it's based on nothing, but our national government-based monetary systems being based on debt are even worse.

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