“Money For Nothing” is a documentary film about the Federal Reserve made by Liberty Films Inc. If it wasn’t for the Mises Institute, and Ron Paul hammering the Fed over many years, a film like this would have never been considered, let alone made. I don’t know how much truth, or what angle the documentary will take, but any light that can be shined on the Fed, making people curious about understand it, is a plus for liberty. Here is a trailer for the movie.
Here are some excerpts from the trailer.
“I don’t think that any of us that ever worked at the Fed take any comfort from the fact that somebody screwed up, but its important that we recognize there were some big mistakes made.” – Peter Fisher, Executive V.P. Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y. (94-01)
“Printing money doesn’t produce goods and services, it doesn’t hire people….It may seem like the right short-term medicine, but can the cure be worse than the disease in some cases.” – Charles Plosser, President Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
The United States has consumed more than it has produced for at least a decade. What country, ask yourself, in history can do that indefinitely forever.” – Tom Hoenig, President Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City.
When asked in an interview, “You have what degree of confidence in your ability to control this“, Ben Bernanke said, “one hundred percent”.
This comment by the Fed chairman demonstrates what F. A. Hayek called, the “fatal conceit”, which is the idea that “man is able to shape the world around him according to his wishes”. A man, or a group of men, don’t possess enough knowledge to plan an ever-changing world.
As John Maynard Keynes wrote, “There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” ,read more in Keynes Was Correct In 1919!
Here is a short clip from the movie.
It is supposed to open in limited markets in September, read more at, moneyfornothingthefilm.org.
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