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Trump's Second Term

Blue Mountain said:
Eggs in fact have dropped in price, just not by the percentage amounts Trump boasts they have. Here's a chart from Trading Economics with prices over the last year to today:
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Since his inauguration on January 22, prices have dropped 48% from $6.56 per dozen. And they've dropped 61% from their record high of $8.17 on March 4. However, they're still 105% more expensive that the 12 month low of $1.54 recorded on 14 May 2024.
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Didn't the bird flu vaccine developed under Biden have something to do with the price drop?




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Blue Mountain said:
Eggs in fact have dropped in price, just not by the percentage amounts Trump boasts they have. Here's a chart from Trading Economics with prices over the last year to today:
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Since his inauguration on January 22, prices have dropped 48% from $6.56 per dozen. And they've dropped 61% from their record high of $8.17 on March 4. However, they're still 105% more expensive that the 12 month low of $1.54 recorded on 14 May 2024.
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Since his inauguration on January 22, looks like prices increased from about $6 and change (from the graphic) to their record high of $8.17 then dropped (ETA: a month and a half later), because ... something . "correlation is not causation"

Spurious Correlations

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Stacyhs said:
""These are kids who will never pay taxes. They'll never hold a job. They'll never play baseball. They'll never write a poem. They'll never go out on a date," he told reporters."

Hmmm...my daughter is on the autism spectrum. She's steadily held a job since her college graduation 10 years ago. As a computer engineer who works on programming digital flight instrumentation for planes and helicopters and makes a damn good living at it, she sure does pay taxes. But he's right; she's never played baseball. Worthless, isn't she?
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Trump never pays taxes, has he ever played baseball? I bet he's never written a poem, and is it a date if you pay for it?
 
Andy_Ross said:
China says there are no negotiations with the US over tariffs

China has denied U_S_ President Donald Trump’s assertion that the two sides were involved in active negotiations over tariffs, saying that any suggestion of progress in this matter was as groundless as “trying to catch the wind.”
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I now find myself wondering who Trump's negotiators are negotiating with, if China insist it's not them. Do you suppose they're haggling with a delegation from Taiwan and haven't realised they're the other China?
 
Donald has pardoned former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, who was convicted of defrauding donors who believed they were contributing to a memorial for a fallen Las Vegas Metro Police officer. Fiore used some of the stolen money to pay for plastic surgery.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Donald has pardoned former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore, who was convicted of defrauding donors who believed they were contributing to a memorial for a fallen Las Vegas Metro Police officer. Fiore used some of the stolen money to pay for plastic surgery.
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She must have held a bit in reserve to bribe Donny into the pardon.
 
He pardoned her of the crime she committed because if she hadn't been such a strident Trumpist, people would have been paying less attention to her and may not have spotted her criminality. If she'd kept quiet she might well have just got away with the theft, and justice demands that criminals should face an equal and fair opportunity of being caught. It's so unfair that people who thrust themselves into the spotlight have this nasty spotlight on them.
 
Blue Mountain said:
Eggs in fact have dropped in price, just not by the percentage amounts Trump boasts they have. Here's a chart from Trading Economics with prices over the last year to today:
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Since his inauguration on January 22, prices have dropped 48% from $6.56 per dozen. And they've dropped 61% from their record high of $8.17 on March 4. However, they're still 105% more expensive that the 12 month low of $1.54 recorded on 14 May 2024.
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I'm sorry, but this source has got to be nonsense.

Eggs haven't gone down in price near me, if anything they have gone up as the "bargain" grocery stores (Aldi, etc) have had to raise prices as well.

AP reports eggs reached an all-time high just two weeks ago.

apnews.com

US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
apnews.com apnews.com


Trading economics says it uses wholesale prices. All I can say is I don't see any of these drops they have claimed.
 
Usually, if I stretch my imagination until it snaps, I can just about work out which bit of common knowledge Trump has just been exposed to for the first time and tried - and abysmally failed - to understand, and which he is now attempting to repeat. But I have to admit I am totally foxed by that. What on earth did someone try to explain to him, which he has completely misunderstood and regurgitated as that drivel?
 
kookbreaker said:
I'm sorry, but this source has got to be nonsense.

Eggs haven't gone down in price near me, if anything they have gone up as the "bargain" grocery stores (Aldi, etc) have had to raise prices as well.

AP reports eggs reached an all-time high just two weeks ago.

apnews.com

US egg prices increase to record high, dashing hopes of cheap eggs by Easter

U.S. egg prices increased again last month to reach a new record-high of $6.23 per dozen despite President Donald Trump’s predictions, a drop in wholesale prices and no egg farms having bird flu outbreaks.
apnews.com apnews.com


Trading economics says it uses wholesale prices. All I can say is I don't see any of these drops they have claimed.
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FactCheck.org seems to agree with you...

Egg Prices​

Contrary to what Trump claimed, average retail egg prices paid by consumers were still increasing last month, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics data that is publicly available. In March, the nationwide average price for a dozen grade A white eggs was about $6.23 – up 5.6% from $5.90 in February, and up 25.7% from $4.95 in January.

Average grocery prices overall went up in March as well, contradicting Trump’s April 18 claim that “groceries are down,” too. The Consumer Price Index for at-home food items increased 0.49% from February — the last monthly decrease in the CPI was in March 2024.

April data on retail egg prices, and grocery prices, will be published in May. The average retail price of eggs would have to fall to about $0.35 a dozen for Trump’s claim of a “93%, 94%” price drop to be accurate.

Trump has previously referred to wholesale prices when claiming that egg prices have decreased by large percentages. The wholesale price is what retailers pay to farmers and other egg producers to procure eggs to sell in their stores.

But even wholesale prices haven’t declined by more that 90%.

As of April 18, the average wholesale price for graded, loose, white large shell eggs was $3.13 per dozen, according to the Department of Agriculture. That was down about 47% from the average price of about $5.87 on Jan. 17, days before Trump was sworn into office again.

The USDA will release its updated wholesale price data on April 25.
 
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