Four Horsemen - Feature Documentary - Official Version
Why Hacker News recommends it
Mentioned as a one-package overview of heterodox views on money creation and debt, though some find it unsurprising.
What it is
An independent feature documentary in which 23 economists, advisers and financiers discuss how the financial system works and what a more just economic model might look like. It covers money creation, debt and the aftermath of the financial crisis.
Recommended by 2 HN commenters across 2 different months, 2013 to 2018.
What Hacker News said
Recommends kamjam · 2013-10 · on “The End of Hypocrisy”
Liberals tend to believe that other countries cooperate with the United States because American ideals are attractive and the U.S.-led international system is fair. I just watched The Four Horsemen on Youtube. It's pretty interesting, although nothing eye opening, but good to see it in one package (so to speak). The economic model to screw over everyone else to advance itself should have made it more than obvious everything you ever suspected was true. Now that more and more of these suspicions are being confirmed the US is on the back foot. [this video]
Recommends jayfuerstenberg · 2015-09 · on “Can the Fed raise interest rates?”
The documentary "Four Horsemen" (link below) goes into these topics at length, especially money creation. Most people's jaws drop when they learn that 97% of all money in the world isn't in paper/coin form but rather 0s and 1s in a database and that it is all willed into existence as debt by a bank. [this video]
Cites tareqak · 2018-10 · on “Why non-Muslims are converting to sharia finance”
I recognized person mentioned at the end of the article: Tarek El Diwany (same first name as me spelled differently) had a part in the "Four Horsemen" documentary ( [this video] ). I found an article about him in [LINK] .