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Finding the Money

Name: Finding the Money
Director: Maren Poitras
Released: 2024
Duration: 95 min

Representation Score

6.3/10

Good

2024

Director

Maren Poitras

Runtime

95 minutes

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Finding the Money serves as a tool for challenging conventional economic thinking. It shifts the focus from scarcity to abundance, empowering global solutions to modern crises. The film disrupts traditional gender roles by placing a woman at the forefront of economic theory. Additionally, it critiques established power structures and fiscal policies. However, the film’s focus on high-level economic concepts means it does not explicitly address specific identity-based representation, such as LGBTQ+ or disability.

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Category Breakdown

Does Finding the Money have LGBTQ+ representation?

Fair

The documentary does not specifically address LGBTQ+ identities or characters. Its main focus is on macroeconomic theory rather than personal identities.

How does Finding the Money portray gender?

Good

The film challenges traditional gender roles by highlighting economist Stephanie Kelton as the primary intellectual figure. This choice centers a woman in a male-dominated field of study.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Finding the Money?

Fair

The film aims to empower countries globally to address economic inequality. Although the core subject is US-focused, the overall message suggests a broader perspective beyond just Anglo-centric models.

How does Finding the Money represent religion and culture?

Excellent

The documentary critically examines Western economic principles. It questions traditional fiscal conservatism and the foundations of modern capitalism to address global issues.

Does Finding the Money include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no information available regarding the depiction of physical or neurodivergent disabilities in this work.

Present on Screen

Highlights a female expert in a traditionally male-dominated intellectual field.
Challenges established Western economic orthodoxies and systemic power structures.
Uses economic theory to address global inequality and climate change.

Limited or Absent

Does not explicitly represent or focus on LGBTQ+ identities.
Does not provide information regarding the inclusion of people with disabilities.
Does not clearly establish specific racial and ethnic character diversity.

Official Synopsis

FINDING THE MONEY follows economist Stephanie Kelton on a journey through Modern Money Theory or “MMT”. Kelton provocatively asserts the National Debt Clock that ticks ominously upwards in New York City is not actually a debt for us taxpayers at all, nor a burden for our grandchildren to pay back. Instead, Kelton describes the national debt as simply a historical record of the number of dollars created by the US federal government currently being held in pockets, as assets, by the rest of us. MMT bursts into the media with journalists asking, “Have we been thinking about how the government spends money, all wrong?” But top economists from across the political spectrum condemn the theory as “voodoo economics”, “crazy” and “a crackpot theory”. FINDING THE MONEY traces the conflict all the way back to the story we tell about money, injecting new hope and empowering countries around the world to tackle the biggest challenges of the 21st century: from climate change to inequality.

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