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I.O.U.S.A. Makes Oscar Shortlist For Best Documentary Feature
I.O.U.S.A., the critically acclaimed film about the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States economy, is on the short list for an Oscar nomination in the Best Documentary Feature category...
Federal deficits: Thinking long
Congress acted. President Bush and his administration did their thing. And now the nation's financial crisis moves into another critical phase. We will know soon whether the rescue will work -- and what more might be required to shore up credit markets...
I.O.U.S.A. Opens in New U.S. Cities, Internationally
MercuryMedia announces today that it will be handling UK distribution of the critically acclaimed film 'IOUSA' following its theatrical release last month in the United States.
The Sundance-selected 85' feature, from Patrick Creaadon ('WordPlay'), will have its European Premiere at Sheffield Doc?/Fest, the week of November 5th. It will then screen theatrically across the UK during ...
In this Disaster Flick, What's Running Red is Federal Budget
Pete Peterson's father was a 17-year-old immigrant without a penny or word of English and only a third-grade education when he got a job washing dishes aboard a Union Pacific train in Nebraska...
The Village Voice - I.O.U.S.A.
Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom, I.O.U.S.A. is an Inconvenient Truth for the debt crisis, a plainly mapped and charted argument against our current economic course...
Fiscal Armageddon, Coming to a Cinema Near You
AMERICA'S infamous debt clock, near New York's Times Square, was switched off in 2000 after the national burden started to fall thanks to several years of Clinton-era budget restraint. However, it was reactivated two years later as the politically motivated urge to splurge once again took over. The debt has since swollen to $9.5 trillion, with the value of unfunded public promises...
Film portrays U.S. debt as monster out of control
The federal government, one way or another, owes $53 trillion, nearly four times the size of the entire annual U.S. economy.
Does that bother you?
If things don't change, income taxes by 2040 will consume 42 percent of your paycheck.
CNBC Anchor Becky Quick To Moderate "I.O.U.S.A. LIVE" In-Theatre Discussion
CNBC's Becky Quick, co-anchor of "Squawk Box," the network's signature morning news program, will moderate I.O.U.S.A.: Live with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson & Dave Walker on August 21. Theatres across America will become community town halls as Quick interviews five of the nation's top financial and economic policy experts in a 45-minute discussion following the viewing of the acclaimed documentary "I.O.U.S.A."
U.S. Economic Challenges Addressed In Live Discussion With Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson & Dave Walker In Exclusive "I.O.U.S.A." In-Theatre Event
As gasoline, food and health care costs continue to rise, Americans are looking for solutions to the ever-growing financial challenges being faced today and in the future. I.O.U.S.A.: Live with Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson & Dave Walker addresses these challenges while offering solutions in a one-night-only, exclusive in-theatre event on Thursday, August 21st.
Impact Film Festival Announces Slate
The Impact Film Festival announced today its slate of films set to screen for lawmakers, candidates and delegates at the national political conventions.
Blackstone's Peterson Backs Film on U.S. Debt Through Nonprofit
Blackstone Group LP co-founder Peter G. Peterson celebrated the launch of his $1 billion foundation last night by showing off his latest acquisition: a documentary that examines the perils of the U.S.'s debt.
Spending $1 Billion to Restore Fiscal Sanity
Peter G. Peterson, co-founder of the Blackstone Group, will finance a media blitz to get the public to focus on what he considers the real news of the day: the nation is going broke.
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