The other day, my wife made me a sandwich, and I ate it. Who benefitted from this transaction?  I enjoyed the good, but my wife did all the work. I like to think I benefitted from the transaction. It’s in the enjoyment of a good that’s the benefit of the good. The labor in creating the good is necessary, and often troublesome, but it’s not the benefit of the good. But President Donald Trump and defenders of economic protectionism who despise trade deficits think my wife cheated me because she had the privilege of doing all the work. Or, at least that’s the implication protectionists make in...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s city grocery store proposal is not a serious socialist threat to free enterprise. We already know they don’t work: Baldwin Market (2019-1924), owned by the town of Baldwin, Florida, went out of business after operating with losses every year. Military commissaries lose $1.57 billion every year.  Mamdani’s supermarkets—if they ever open, and none are scheduled to even open until late next year—will be no different. Anyone even mildly aware of how government works knows it will bring the cost controls of the Pentagon and the personal service of the Registry...

Grocery prices are insane. They’re still rising. Addressing this problem should be the number one priority of every elected leader. End the stupid foreign wars and focus on this issue. It’s one of the main reasons socialists are gaining power. — Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) August 3, 2026 If you want to know why the youth is suddenly so enamored with socialism, look how the self-proclaimed defenders of the free market have been lying to Zoomers with their preaching of what I've labeled the “libertarian prosperity gospel.”  While the “democratic socialists” are winning Democratic primaries...

We’ve all seen the memes: “You do not earn a billion dollars. You steal it. Nobody works a billion times harder than a nurse, a teacher or a farmer. That wealth comes from underpaying the people who actually did the work.” The other end of the spectrum is the slogan: “None of your problems are because someone else is a billionaire.” Or now, trillionaire. Both are equally untrue and just as economically ignorant. But perhaps the latter is even more strategically damaging to the future of a genuine free market. Elon Musk has taken in at least $38 billion in subsidies and federal contracts, not...