'Money For Nothing': The New Fed Documentary Is Absolutely Fascinating
By STEVEN PERLBERG
"When you or I print money it's called counterfeiting," a commentator muses in a new documentary about the Federal Reserve. "When the Fed does it, it's called monetary policy."
That documentary is Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve and that commentator was former St. Louis Fed Governor William Poole.
Charting 100 years of Fed history, the film features an impressive collection of economic actors and thinkers: Paul Volcker, Janet Yellen, Jim Grant, Peter Atwater, John Mauldin, Barry Ritholtz, Gary Shilling, and others. It's also narrated by the dulcet tones of Liev Schreiber.
If Farhenheit 9/11 was Michael Moore's seminal repudiation of George W. Bush's foreign policy, Money For Nothing is writer/director Jim Bruce's similar critique of the history of the Federal Reserve.
Keep reading: Money For Nothing Film – Business Insider.
