THE VIDEO SHELF · debt-based money
Money as Debt I - Revised Edition 2009 (Full Movie)
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.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN commenters recommend it as a cartoonish but thorough explanation of the monetary system, though some critics dispute its claims.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Ethaniel RockX
- Topic
- debt-based money
- Format
- documentary
- Level
- intro
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 4
- HN mentions in dataset
- 5
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2020–2022
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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.
jonplackett on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Payments on mortgages to be suspended across Italy after coronavirus outbreakThis 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]
scirocco on Hacker News · 2020-03
In Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?I am surprised no one has shared these two important documentary videos on money: Money as Debt: [VIDEO] Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order by Ray Dalio: [LINK]
OrlandoHakim on Hacker News · 2022-03
In What is money, anyway?
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