Breitbart Business Digest: America's $29 Trillion Economy Doesn't Need Foreign Competition for Quality

The Free Traders Have It Backwards: America Doesn’t Need the World for Quality

The next time you order a pint of hazy double IPA , you can thank the diversity, dynamism, and competitiveness of the American economy.

Scott Burns of Texas Christian University and Caleb Fuller of Grove City College, writing in the Wall Street Journal , want you to believe this was made possible by foreign competition—that Americans only learned to brew good beer because Heineken and Stella showed us the way or posed a competitive threat to domestic brewers. They even make the outlandish claim: “Most brewmasters will tell you this improvement was spurred by foreign competition, not protectionist pampering.”

We’re pretty sure they didn’t truly ask any actual American brewmasters who built the craft be