When Money Broke

When Money Broke opens real household budgets from history's hardest economies and decodes them line by line. From the 1971 Nixon shock and the stagflation years to Depression-era pantries and wartime ration books, we trace what groceries, mortgages, and gasoline actually cost — and how ordinary families stretched a paycheck through it all. Every episode of When Money Broke is built from documented prices, period records, and archival footage, with the numbers shown large on screen. It's made for viewers who lived these years — and for anyone watching prices rise today who wants proof that households have survived worse. New documentaries every week.