Showing posts with label ground beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ground beef. Show all posts
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...
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  
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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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.    
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...
Monday, October 27, 2025

Prices of 20 food items posted new all time highs on a quarterly average basis under Donald Trump in 3Q2025

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 The 20 foods shown making new all time highs represent 43% of the 46 foods I have been tracking in the FRED database at the St. Louis Feder...
Saturday, August 16, 2025

All eight beef prices I track made new record average highs in July 2025

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Adjusted for inflation since July 1984, 100% ground beef should cost $3.88/lb in July 2025, but it's actually 61% higher than that.     ...
Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Food items making new all time high average prices in the United States in June 2025

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   All prices are FRED data from the St. Louis Fed in U.S. dollars.   The headlines are correct. Average beef prices are out of this world i...
Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Food items making new all time high average prices in the United States in May 2025

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 All prices are FRED data from the St. Louis Fed in U.S. dollars.   Ground Chuck 6.018/lb Coffee 7.931 White Sugar 1.054 Bananas 0.655 Potat...
Sunday, May 18, 2025

Eleven foods which made new all-time high average prices in April 2025

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 Round roast $7.616/lb All roasts 7.995 Round steak 8.627 All steaks 11.12 Sirloin steak 12.326 Ground chuck 5.996 100% ground beef 5.801 Al...
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...
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...
Thursday, October 5, 2023

Average protein prices per pound August 2023 vs. 2019 annual average

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Ground Beef: $5.076 / $3.807, up 33.3% Pork Chops: $4.359 / $3.339, up 30.5% Bacon: $6.502 / $5.613, up 15.8% Chicken: $1.958 / $1.495, up 3...
Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The inflation adjusted average price of ground beef in the United States

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 In January 1984, ground beef was $1.29/pound. Adjusted for inflation to August 2023, it should be $3.89/pound, according to the inflation c...
Sunday, June 18, 2023

On the Sunday grill: My May 1984 33-cent hamburger should cost 96-cents in May 2023, instead it costs $1.24

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 It's nearly 30% overpriced. The inflation-adjusted pound of ground beef over the period should cost $3.82. I buy the good stuff, howeve...