9 /10 1 Votes
99% Rotten Tomatoes Release date 2014 (2014) Initial release 5 December 2014 Screenplay Richard Gale | 7.9/10 IMDb Written by Richard Gale Running time 112 minutes Director Gary Null Cinematography Peter Bonilla | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Directed by Gary Null
Valerie Van Cleve Produced by Valerie Van Cleve
Richard Gale Edited by Nicholas Pulcini
Valerie Van Cleve Producers Valerie Van Cleve, Richard Gale Cast Ralph Nader, Dennis Kucinich, Jordan Belfort, Chris Hedges, Max Keiser Similar Poverty - Inc, Autism: Made in the USA, Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untol, Bush Family Fortunes, The Best Democracy Money C | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Poverty Inc. is a 2014 film by Gary Null and Valerie Van Cleve which "claims that the Federal Reserve, like other central banks such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is a pyramid scheme."
Contents
The film, characterised as an "advocacy documentary", looks at the signing of the 1913 Federal Reserve Act by Woodrow Wilson and the demise of the Glass-Steagall Act, which it asserts "effectively turned Goldman Sachs from a financial casino into a commercial bank with full government coverage". The Federal Reserve is portrayed as "an unconstitutional lobbying body for commercial banks that prints money out of thin air".
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Critical reception
The film has been largely ignored by mainstream media, with few reviews. The Village Voice said that "Null’s movie [...] utterly fails to inform or guide. Every speaker seems to traffic in exclamation points, pretty much the only points that are made", characterising it as "a nightmare of attention deficit and hyperactivity" and "devoid of backup and evidence". The Los Angeles Times noted "sound bites indiscriminately collected from the likes of Ralph Nader and former Rep. Dennis Kucinich as well as seemingly random folks like a family doctor and the owner of a vintage clothing store". The New York Times said of the film that "it's not pleasant to be bludgeoned with rhetoric even if you subscribe to the film's premise".