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1) The president doesn't have a magic dial to bring down prices, and
2) Trump loves tariffs which have inflationary effects no matter how you spin it
So all the complaints about high prices was just for show since they don't actually care.
EDIT: 3) Inflation was a global phenomenon and the U.S. was actually outperforming most countries in bringing the rate of inflation down.
Yeah, bird flu is really bad.
What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it. edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.
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Why does this mostly affect the US? I've been abroad most of the year and eggs don't seem overly expensive.
To cite a close-to-home example, chicken farms in Canada typically have about 25,000 chickens, whereas ones in the U.S. often have millions. So an infection that requires the entire flock to be slaughtered has a much bigger effect on the supply of eggs south of the border.
Weird that the size of the farms aren't being regulated if you know from other countries that it makes containment easier.
Time to buy chickens!!!
I live in CA and saw a massive jump in prices when the state ordered chickens to be euthanized due to bird flu. It was also the first time I saw grocery store shelves completely empty of eggs for days at a time. Prices for organic eggs have somewhat returned to pre-bird flu levels but the regular sales and discounts have stopped. Non-organic eggs are still significantly higher.
I'm in CA and TJ's was empty for months not too long ago.
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Hacker News is not the place for cheap political shots; especially as by any objective measure, two weeks is insufficient for any specific promise regarding pricing to be immediately felt.
It's not a "cheap political shot". He literally promised that prices would be lowered day 1 of his presidency. > When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One These are his own words. What happened? https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/28/economy/trump-inflation-p...
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This is why we must freeze USDA funding, halt all public health communications from our federal government, and urgently (TOP PRIORITY!!!) scrub all mentions of the word "women" from every public-facing piece of scientific content we can find.
Look, we all know these were chickens hired because of DEI under Obama.