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“Let's just take poverty in The United States. It was 26% a few decades ago. It was 16% in the financial crisis, and it's 13% now. It's at an all time low.”
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“So 1,000,000,000 people have been lifted out of extreme poverty in the last twenty years. Why? Because obviously India and China adopted a free market model.”
Druckenmiller argues that for every billionaire created, 400,000 people exited extreme poverty over the same period.
“And with regard to all this other talk about billionaires and so forth. So during that same period, you've created 2,500 billionaires, but you've brought a billion people out of poverty.”