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Episode 297: What Happened to Poverty?

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The Frustration of the Millenium

"Malthus wasn't wrong. He was spectacularly wrong," he says. "If there's a foolishness of the millennium, I think Malthus kind of qualifies" The world has gone from having many people living in poverty to one with an almost unlimited amount of money and resources, writes David Frum.

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