Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 10, 2026

Consumer price index inflation in May 2026: +4.2% year over year overall, +2.9% or +2.8% year over year for core, depending on whether you go not seasonally adjusted or seasonally adjusted

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Commenters may like to draw a sharp distinction between overall and core and point to core as evidence that this is not so bad, but the thin...
Thursday, June 4, 2026

"We got this, we got this" USDA says about Plan B after Plan A began too late, with too little urgency, and will be short of the needed 500 million sterile screwworm flies until 2028 at the earliest

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We are so screwed, so to speak.  Hamburgers will never be cheap as long as Donald Trump is president.     Flesh-eating screwworm is confirme...
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, May 29, 2026

When 86 is the good news

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The sum of the average prices of five ingredients for your April 2018 BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato, lightly toasted white bread in butter) is...
Wednesday, May 13, 2026

Adjusted for consumer price index inflation since October 2019, a traditional American breakfast should cost you 29.4% more in April 2026, instead it's 54.9% more!

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29.4% more is bad enough, right?  The ingredients for a traditional American breakfast in April 2026, adjusted for consumer price index infl...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

70% of Americans eat beef at least once a week, and pay these all-time high prices for it

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Sunday, May 10, 2026

I stopped caring about this particular economic measure when I realized that it obscures the fact that the top 20% in this country receive 60% of the income it displays

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Frankly, most of the economic charts produced by the government do this kind of thing. Most of the time the rich use this data to tell you h...
Sunday, April 19, 2026

Trump was useless when we needed him

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  Trump: NATO Was Useless When We Needed Them, But Actually We Didn't Need Them  
Friday, April 17, 2026

Now do the U.S. Mail

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  Mamdani: We're Being Told A City-Run Grocery Store Is Implausible While Spending $500 Million A Day To Kill People In Iran
Wednesday, April 15, 2026

My morning coffee, my Sunday hamburger, my Italian tomatoes, pasta and olive oil, and now even my salad

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I coulda mentioned salad the other day, but I didn't. The average price made a new record high in 1Q2026.                       Why BLTs...
Wednesday, March 11, 2026

New high prices for coffee and ground chuck

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Sunday, February 15, 2026

The cost of making a banana bread at home for breakfast spiked 57% in 2023 and 70% in 2025 from Jan 2020, and is still up 31% in Jan 2026

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The ingredients in the data below come from the Gold Medal Flour Best-Ever Banana Bread recipe printed on the package, minus the (small amou...
Saturday, February 14, 2026

It could be worse: If the average price of coffee in this chart had kept up with inflation since Jan 1980, the average price in Jan 2026 would be $13.42 instead of $9.37

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  Soaring coffee prices rewrite daily routines...   ... Coffee prices in the U.S. were up 18.3% in January from a year ago, according to the...

The cost of a traditional American breakfast in Jan 2026 is up 55.3% since Jan 2020

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 Menu:   Coffee with milk Bacon and eggs Toast with butter Orange juice      
Friday, February 13, 2026

I can no longer has cheezburger under Donald J. Trump

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 100% ground beef hit a new all time high average price of $6.752/lb in Jan 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, February 5, 2026

Don't order the fried calamari

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  OLIVE GARDEN cook dies after going 'head first' into deep fryer; Cops say suicide...
Tuesday, January 13, 2026

100% ground beef averaged a record $6.089 in year one of Trump 2.0, and hit a record high $6.687 in Dec 2025 to celebrate the New Golden Age for them, not for you

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 Like many other such graphs, the graph for 100% Ground Beef won't show the 2025 average because the government shutdown meant no figure...

Food at home inflation was 2.4% year over year in Dec 2025, and there has still been no food deflation like there was in 2009 or 2016 to relieve the have-nots of America

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  food at home inflation 2.4% yoy food inflation 3.1% yoy
Saturday, December 27, 2025

Three in four Americans say groceries are so expensive they’ve been forced to cut down on entertainment, travel, clothing, and food and drink away from home

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   Reported here . So, what do those of us cut, who long ago completely cut out entertainment, travel, food and drink away from home, and me...