Moconomy

At its peak, Detroit was the fourth largest city in the United States. The arsenal of democracy. The city that built the cars that built the American middle class. 🏭

Then the assembly lines slowed. Then stopped. Then left.

What most people don't know is what happened next.
This documentary is not about Detroit's collapse. It is about the people who stayed — and why. The community workers rebuilding blocks that the city forgot. The artists who turned abandoned factories into cultural spaces. The immigrants who saw opportunity in a city that everyone else was leaving.

The politicians navigating a system designed for a Detroit that no longer exists. 🎶

Because Detroit didn't collapse. It emptied out. And then, slowly, on its own terms, it started filling back up again. 💪
▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: is Detroit's story unique — or is it a blueprint for what happens to every city when its core industry disappears?

5 hours ago | [YT] | 0

Moconomy

Most people spend decades building something. A career. A home. Savings. A business. Something that took real sacrifice to put together.
Almost nobody plans what happens to it after they're gone. 📋

It's not laziness. It's not irresponsibility. It's the fact that thinking seriously about your own death requires sitting with a kind of discomfort that most of us are very good at postponing indefinitely.

Have you ever had a real conversation with your family about money, inheritance, and what happens when you're no longer here — or is it a subject that everyone knows matters and nobody ever actually touches? 👇

And if you have had it — what made you finally do it?

2 days ago | [YT] | 23

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Robin Williams made people laugh for forty years. He also made — and lost — more money than most people can imagine. 💸

Three marriages. Three divorces. No prenuptial agreements. Each separation carved a significant portion from a fortune built over decades. And then came the legal battle that nobody planned for.

What this documentary reveals is not just a financial story. It is a story about how success without structure eventually becomes someone else's problem to solve — usually in court, usually after it's too late.
Estate planning, divorce law, addiction, misdiagnosis. The machinery that dismantles a fortune is rarely dramatic. It is mostly paperwork, and silence, and decisions made too late. 📋

▶️ On the channel now.

4 days ago | [YT] | 0

Moconomy

Percy used to earn $54,000 a year coordinating facilities. He had horses, a house, a life that made sense.
Then the factories closed.
Caterpillar. Briggs & Stratton. Schlitz. All gone from Milwaukee. Nothing replaced them. And Percy — who did everything right, who worked hard, who built something — ended up cleaning a suburban mall for $8 an hour through a temp agency.

In the same episode, Elizabeth does her monthly budget at work and watches her Christmas fund disappear after a $587 surprise bill. She has $49.31 left. Christmas is cancelled.

Hilton and Diana are forced out of their garage into a house at $1,050 a month — triple their old rent — just as doctors deliver worrying news about the twins.


▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: do you know someone whose life looked like Percy's — and what do you think should have been done differently?

6 days ago | [YT] | 8

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Brexit was sold as a revolution against the elite. The people taking back control.
What if the people who actually took control were a different elite entirely? 🏛️

This is not a film about whether Brexit was right or wrong. It is a film about who paid for it — and what they expected in return. 💰
The money trails lead to hedge funds betting against the pound, to offshore networks with no traceable ownership, to lobbying operations designed to look like grassroots movements. The documentary follows those trails with the calm precision of a financial investigation — not a political rant — and the conclusions it reaches are uncomfortable regardless of how you voted.

▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: do you think dark money has fundamentally changed how democratic decisions get made — or has politics always worked this way?

1 week ago | [YT] | 16

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Women control $10 trillion in assets in the United States. They are also twice as likely as men to retire in poverty. 💸

Those two facts existing simultaneously is not a coincidence. It is the result of a system.

For generations, women were legally barred from opening bank accounts without a husband's signature, from taking out loans in their own name, from investing independently. The laws changed.

$avvy doesn't ask why women are bad with money. It asks a more honest question: what was built to keep them out — and what does it actually cost?
From the gender pay gap and student debt spirals to financial abuse in relationships, the investment confidence gap and what happens to women's wealth after divorce — this documentary follows the money through every stage of a woman's financial life.


▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: what is the one thing about money that nobody taught you — and that you wish they had? 👇

1 week ago | [YT] | 19

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Every documentary we make, every case we investigate, every financial system we pull apart: they all lead back to the same question eventually.Wealth inequality has existed in every society in human history.

But the gap between the wealthiest and everyone else has widened faster in the last 40 years than in any comparable period since the Gilded Age. And depending on who you ask, the explanation — and the solution — is completely different.Some say it starts in the classroom.

Others say it starts in the legislature. Others point to inheritance, to technology, to tax codes written by the people who benefit from them most.So we want to know what you think: what is the root cause of wealth inequality?

1 week ago | [YT] | 26

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Twenty-five years ago, there were 140 billionaires in the world. Today, there are over 1,200. That is not economic growth — that is a structural shift in who captures the gains of economic growth.While pension funds shrink, housing becomes unreachable, and the middle class absorbs the cost of every financial crisis, the 0.1% have not just recovered — they have accelerated.

The question most documentaries about billionaires never ask is not how they made their money. It is what they are doing with it — and whether any of us got a vote on that.How to Be a Billionaire goes inside the world of the ultra-wealthy — not to celebrate it, but to examine it.

The private obsessions being funded with fortunes large enough to reshape industries, cities, and in some cases, the direction of human civilisation. Projects that governments cannot or will not fund, now being decided by individuals accountable to no one but themselves.Is that visionary? Or is it the most dangerous concentration of power since the Gilded Age?

▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: should billionaires exist — or is the existence of extreme wealth itself a sign that something has gone wrong?

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 18

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The British Empire covered a quarter of the earth's surface. When it ended, Britain built an organisation to manage what came after and called it the Commonwealth.

The story the documentary tells is not really about Brexit. Brexit is just the moment the question became impossible to ignore. The real story is about what happens when a country's sense of its own place in the world is built on something that no longer exists.

The paradox at the centre of this documentary is one that no British government has fully confronted: the organisation benefits least the country that built it. The empire is always there. It is never mentioned.

▶️ Tell us in the comments: which moment in the documentary changed how you think about Britain, the Commonwealth, or the legacy of empire and why?

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 18

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Casey Kasem's voice reached 10 million listeners every week for nearly 40 years. He built an $80 million fortune. He was one of the most recognised voices in American radio history.

And in the end, none of that protected him — or his family — from what came next.
When Kasem's health deteriorated, the battle over his care, his estate, and who had the right to make decisions on his behalf turned into one of the most public and painful wealth disputes in recent memory. Children from his first marriage against his second wife. Power of attorney weaponised. Court orders. A body that went missing for weeks after his death. Eighty million dollars sitting at the centre of a family that had stopped being a family long before he was gone.

This documentary is not about radio. It is about what happens to wealth — and to people — when there is no clear plan for what comes after. And about how the people who love you can become the people fighting hardest over what you leave behind.

▶️ On the channel now. Watch it and tell us in the comments: do you think most families are one inheritance away from falling apart?

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 8