Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggs. Show all posts
Sunday, May 31, 2026

Gold and silver are still up 5+% year to date

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 SPX +10.52% ytd WTI +53.11% ytd   Meanwhile in April:  Hamburger +18.9% yoy Coffee +29.0% yoy Unleaded regular gasoline +28.0% yoy Electric...
Friday, February 13, 2026

On the eve of the election Trump promised cheaper grocery prices, but breakfast costs nearly 8% more in Jan 2026 than it did then

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  A basket of bacon and eggs, whole wheat bread and butter, coffee and whole milk, and orange juice cost on average $32.47 in the United Sta...
Thursday, December 18, 2025

Eggs averaged $1.39/dozen in 2019 under Trump I but were $2.86 in November 2025 under Trump II, 106% higher

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Trump makes an omelette

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     It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.   -- Francis Bacon (15...
Friday, October 24, 2025

Eggs averaged $1.53 per dozen under Trump I, under Trump II they average $3.49 per dozen in September 2025, 128% more

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Saturday, August 16, 2025

Adjusted for inflation since 1980, eggs should cost $3.03 a dozen in July 2025, instead they cost $3.60

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Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Chicken eggs in the United States post their highest semiannual average price ever, under Mad King Ludwig

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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The average price of a dozen eggs in May 2025 was $4.548, which is 157% higher than the average price of $1.769 2010-2020

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 The homeowner with the coop up the street sells his for $5 a dozen, but he was out this morning. The homeowner with the coop down the stree...
Saturday, April 19, 2025

18 things which set new price records on an average basis in 1Q2025: beef, beef, and more beef, ice cream, sugar, coffee, OJ, chicken, American cheese, beer, wine, eggs, electricity

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  sirloin chuck roast beef roasts beef steaks ground beef ice cream sugar coffee orange juice chicken ground chuck round steak round roast A...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Ten foods making new all time high average prices in March 2025 per FRED Economic Data

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Round roast $7.557 per pound Round steak $8.554 Ground chuck $5.854 Ground beef 100% $5.79 Ground beef all $6.137 Beef steaks all $10.98 Egg...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Liars all over Elon Musk's X kept saying Trump brought egg prices down, but in March 2025 they were more expensive than ever on an average basis: $6.227 per dozen

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Sam's Club, when it has eggs in stock, is charging in the mid to high 4s per dozen.  
Monday, April 7, 2025

Car manufacturing jobs, so-called good jobs, already don't pay enough to enable these Detroit auto workers to buy their own homes and have families, and they fear layoffs because of the tariffs

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  The Wall Street Journal doesn't mention it here . This guy's been working for the company for 10 years and he's still renting....
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

J. D. Vance is fixated on cheaper foreign labor as the cause of American industrial decline when it was the tax preference given to ordinary income over long term capital investment which made it attractive

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Vance: The Two Conceits Of Globalization That Squeezed American Manufacturing From Both Ends   ". . . cheap labor is fundamentally a cr...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Beef, breakfast, and bliss just went up again: A dozen basic foods posting new all time high average prices in February 2025 according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

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Choice chuck roast $8.104/lb Ground chuck $5.744 All uncooked ground beef $5.96 All uncooked beef roasts $7.995 Round roast $7.49 Round stea...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Nine basic foods posting new all time high average prices in January 2025 according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank

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Round steak $8.28/lb Eggs             $4.953/doz Frozen OJ    $4.48/12oz. Coffee          $7.019/lb Sugar            $1.011/lb Ice Cream    ...

Everybody's favorite food inflation indicator, eggs, made another new all-time record high average price in January 2025: $4.953/dozen

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 Sorting for the 100 largest flocks of egg-layers affected by H5N1 bird flu since 2022 which have had to be destroyed, as of this morning I...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Meanwhile, speaking of wholesale prices, you are paying $9+ a dozen for eggs in some places because producer prices averaged $4.62 in December

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 That would be 75-cents for an egg that cost the producer about 19-cents. I got a $1 off 18 eggs yesterday at a nearby health food store and...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

Trump's two-faced positioning on the H-1B Visa Program in 2024 is mirrored by his two-faced positioning on DACA from 2015

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   Trump was NEVER all-in about his immigration positions, which went back and forth from the beginning.  People forget that he and Ann Coul...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

More inflation: Core producer prices, aka core wholesale prices, have been up four months in a row measured year over year, the last three increases all above 3% yoy

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 3.2%, 3.4% . . . and 3.5% year over year now in November 2024. Overall prices are up 3% yoy in November.   Wholesale prices rose 0.4% in No...
Thursday, September 12, 2024

Food prices making new all-time-highs in August 2024: Beef, beer, yogurt, ice cream, rice

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 Many other basic foods, not shown, are still near their all-time-highs, like dried beans for example, or potatoes, sugar, and flour, but yo...