Gov-owned groceries in NY, and soon Washington, not going to work, Venezuelan with experience reports

 

by Monica Showalter

A young, Columbia-educated Venezuelan-born economist, Daniel di Martino, explains why in Thomas Sowell-like terms why the idea stinks for New York.

My friend Daniel di Martino, who just got his PhD in economics from Columbia University, is very good at explaining basic economics with Thomas Sowell-like clarity, with the added benefit of checking out what is going on on the ground in New York. He's started making more videos, which is an excellent thing, combining his economic knowledge, his investigative capacity in New York, and his background growing up in Chavista Venezuela, where everything touted as new here has already been done there.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani's bat-brained scheme of government-run groceries, fits right into these talents:

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/05/video_government_owned_groceries_in_new_york_and_soon_washington_not_going_to_work_a_venezuelan_with_experience_reports.html