{"id":21542,"date":"2014-11-12T04:47:34","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T03:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=21542"},"modified":"2015-02-06T01:03:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:03:01","slug":"paul-allen-a-founder-of-microsoft-bankrolls-financial-explanations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/paul-allen-a-founder-of-microsoft-bankrolls-financial-explanations\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Allen, A Founder of Microsoft, Bankrolls Financial Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allen bankrolled 20 shorts called &#8220;We the Economy.&#8221;\u00a0 Adam McKay, who made <em>Anchorman, <\/em>parodied <em>My Little Pony <\/em>to explain income inequality.\u00a0 <em>That Film about Money, <\/em>made by James Schamus, one of the founders of Good Machine, explains how bank&#8217;s leverage money.\u00a0 Maarshall Curry has made an animated film about Debt and Deficits and has fun breaking down the differences betwen John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood Reporter writes:\u00a0 The films will be released on more than 50 digital, cable, TV and mobile platforms, including Android and iPhone custom apps, CNBC, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Hulu, iTunes, Netflix, Yahoo Screen, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Amazon Instant Video, AOL&#8217;s On Network, CBS News, Conde Nast Entertainment&#8217;s The Scene, Crackle and Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox and Verizon VOD services. Landmark Theatres is also hosting a one-night-only theatrical sneak preview on Oct. 20 at 7 p.m. in 20 cities nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unique distribution model for We the Economy is all about audience access,&#8221; Vulcan Productions general manager and creative director Carole Tomko said in a statement. &#8220;There\u2019s not enough accessible, bite-size information that\u2019s easy to digest about the economy. We wanted these short films to help people understand the fundamentals of the economy, and in order to reach the widest audience, we decided to make them available across as many channels as possible, and at no cost. There\u2019s an appetite for this entertaining, informative short-form content, and we know that our extensive group of distribution partners guarantees that everyone in this country with a computer, a smartphone or a television will have access to the series.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/paul-allen-a-founder-of-microsoft-bankrolls-financial-explanations\/income-inequality-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21543\" src=\"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Income-Inequality-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Income Inequality\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Income-Inequality-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Income-Inequality-1024x573.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Income-Inequality-500x279.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Income-Inequality.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allen bankrolled 20 shorts called &#8220;We the Economy.&#8221;\u00a0 Adam McKay, who made Anchorman, parodied My Little Pony to explain income inequality.\u00a0 That Film about Money, made by James Schamus, one of the founders of Good Machine, explains how bank&#8217;s leverage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/paul-allen-a-founder-of-microsoft-bankrolls-financial-explanations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-financial-literacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24335,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21542\/revisions\/24335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}