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2013
Not Rated
Java Films
1 h 44 m

2013
Not Rated
Java Films
1 h 44 m

Summary Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated ...

Directed By: Jim Bruce

Written By: Jim Bruce

2013
Not Rated
Java Films
1 h 44 m

2013
Not Rated
Java Films
1 h 44 m

Money for Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

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Summary Nearly 100 years after its creation, the power of the U.S. Federal Reserve has never been greater. Markets and governments around the world hold their breath in anticipation of the Fed Chairman's every word. Yet the average person knows very little about the most powerful - and least understood - financial institution on earth. Narrated ...

Directed By: Jim Bruce

Written By: Jim Bruce

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Top Cast

Liev Schreiber

Narrator

Paul Volcker

Self - Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1979-1987)

Janet Yellen

Self - Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve

Peter Atwater

Self - Former Head of Asset Finance - J.P. Morgan

Alan Blinder

Self - Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1994-1996)

Tony Boeckh

Self - Economist - The Boeckh Investment Letter

Michael Bordo

Self - Professor of Economics - Rutgers University

Dave Colander

Self - Professor of Economics - Middlebury College

Peter Fisher

Self - Executive V.P. - Federal Reserve Bank of New York (1994-2001)

Richard Fisher

Self

Marvin Goodfriend

Self - Senor V.P. - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (1993-2005)

Jim Grant

Self - Economist, Editor - Grant's Interest Rate Observer

Jeremy Grantham

Self - Chief Investment Strategist - GMO

Todd Harrison

Self - Derivatives Trader, CEO - Minyanville Media

Thomas Hoenig

Self - President - Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City (1991-2011)

Jeffrey Lacker

Self - President - Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond

John Mauldin

Self - Chairman - Mauldin Economics, Author - Endgame

Martin Mayer

Self - Author - The Fed, Brookings Institution Scholar

Allan Meltzer

Self - Economist, Author - A History of the Federal Reserve

Laurence Meyer

Self - Federal Reserve Governor (1996-2002)

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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

44% Positive
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56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore

Mixed or Average Based on 9 Critic Reviews

44% Positive
4 Reviews

56% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Chicago Sun-Times

Sep 19, 2013

[An] informing if not inflaming documentary.

By Bill Stamets FULL REVIEW

Sep 6, 2013

With a blitz of talking heads and graphs and technical jargon, Money For Nothing can be exhausting viewing at times, and it's certainly not the most cinematic experience... But it's never unclear.

By Kevin Jagernauth FULL REVIEW

The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

Feb 20, 2014

Actor Liev Schreiber’s voice-over narration is filled with sonorous urgency, but as the film’s commentators acknowledge, some ideas are a hard sell: How do politicians and regulators convince the public on the benefits of a financial diet when a spending spree sounds much more fun?

By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Sep 11, 2013

Money for Nothing feels less prophetic than generally handwringing -- it's just enough to produce vague worry in the unschooled without moving policymakers to do anything they're not already doing.

By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

Sep 10, 2013

Bruce may succeed in making you wary of the Fed, but, unfortunately, he's also likely to make you wary of his film.

Washington Post

Sep 13, 2013

The film is less a look into the Fed’s head than a presentation of its history, going back even farther than its creation in 1913, in response to a series of early 20th-century banking panics.

By Michael O'Sullivan FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Sep 12, 2013

The film doesn’t really live up to its subtitle. There is little sense of what kinds of debates take place at board meetings or how pressure is applied behind closed doors.

By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Sep 6, 2013

Duration 1 h 44 m

Rating Not Rated

Genres

Tagline The first film about the NEXT crisis.

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