Ep. 61 The Poverty Cure
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Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2013
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Michael Matheson Miller, Director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute and leader of Poverty Cure, which promotes entrepreneurial solutions in the developing world.
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| 0:00.0 | I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system. |
| 0:09.9 | In a world of conventional confusion, there will be time for them to make profits. |
| 0:14.9 | Now's not that time. |
| 0:16.5 | Daddy, what do taxes pay for? |
| 0:18.3 | Oh, why everything? |
| 0:19.7 | Policemen, trees, sunshine. |
| 0:21.9 | And let's not forget the folks who just don't feel like working, God bless them. |
| 0:25.9 | Don't be afraid. |
| 0:26.7 | I'll feel free, that. |
| 0:28.3 | Prepare to unshackle your mind. |
| 0:31.3 | An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. |
| 0:36.9 | Your professor has arrived tom woods |
| 0:42.3 | well his mind is not for rent to any government |
| 0:46.3 | beware citizen you are now departing from the world of allowable opinion, the Tom Woods Show. |
| 0:56.5 | Welcome, everybody. It is Tuesday, December 17, 2013. What is to be done about poverty around the world? |
| 1:06.4 | That's our subject for today with our guest Michael Matheson Miller, who is research fellow |
| 1:12.3 | and director of Acton Media at the Acton Institute. |
| 1:16.6 | Acton.org is their website. |
| 1:19.8 | But much of his current work at the Acton Institute involves leading poverty cure, promoting |
| 1:25.4 | entrepreneurial solutions to poverty in the developing world. And that's what we're going to be talking about today. Michael Matheson Miller. Thanks very much for being here with us today. |
| 1:36.2 | Thanks for having me on your show. Well, I first became aware, I mean, you and I have met in the past at the Acton Institute, but I first became aware of poverty cure. |
| 1:44.5 | I'm sorry for being so dense and out of it, but because somebody posted on my Facebook page |
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