Capitalism's defenders and critics square off against a backdrop of financial crisis, ballooning government debt, and street protest. The film sets the Tea Party's argument, that central bank intervention and government spending have corrupted the free market, against the Occupy movement's case that the system concentrates wealth by design. The numbers get put on screen: the United States carries $15.2 trillion in debt, the Economic Policy Institute finds the top 1 percent of American households hold 42.7 percent of national assets, and UNICEF data shows the wealthiest fifth of the world's population controls 82.8 percent of global income while the poorest fifth gets 1 percent. A figure on political money lands hard too, 24.3 percent of 2010 campaign donations came from just 0.01 percent of Americans. Economists Mark Weisbrot and Bryan Caplan and author Loretta Napoleoni argue the opposing readings of these figures, one side calling them proof of a rigged system, the other a distortion of a market that was never allowed to work freely.