Frank Hill reports on David Gardner's, talk last week at the Wilberforce Conference sponsored by the North Carolina Study Center. (Gardner founded the stock market advisory firm The Motley Fool with his brother).
“Despite all of our collective problems and doomsday predictions … there is immense hope for the future regardless of what you hear daily.”
"As a result of trade and free enterprise, human development has accelerated at warp speed over the last 200 years. Mass epidemics have been wiped out or averted; 99 percent of the people on the planet today live in far better conditions than our Stone Age ancestors; global life expectancies have doubled since 1900 and billions of people worldwide have been lifted out of abject poverty once they have joined the international community of commerce and free enterprise."
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