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The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

submitted 6 days ago • 666 comments

DEAR MR BESSENT: It was "the plan all along?" Wouldn't that mean that you planned to crash the stock market, buy low and gain MORE wealth with the rebound? If not, maybe watch that your words match YOUR motives and not just what DJT tells you to say. Stop playing games with people's lives!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Bates: He inherited an economy that was the best-performing in the world. But in just two months, he’s crashing that economy with the biggest tax increase on middle-class families in 50 years—raising the prices he promised he would lower, and breaking his number one promise to them.

submitted 9 days ago • 404 comments

Absolutely.

submitted 9 days ago • 91 comments

Today it became clear that Trump is hellbent on MAKING AMERICA LAST. His tariffs are a f**king disaster. If Congressional Republicans don’t take back their tariff powers with a veto-proof legislation they are totally complicit in this economic travesty. Congress can end this reckless disregard.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

🔴 THE INDEPENDENT VIEW | There is now only a slim chance that a global recession can be averted. Decades of painstaking work to establish rules for international trade are being undone by the stroke of a presidential Sharpie. Read more ⬇️

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

"Someone needs to walk into the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, we just fired the person who may have saved your life." Dr. David Kessler on whether Donald Trump understands what his indiscriminate cuts at HHS are doing.

submitted 12 days ago • 58 comments

"I am very concerned that if these cuts are not rescinded, these will have an effect for decades." Dr. David Kessler, former FDA commissioner, is losing confidence that the damage Donald Trump is doing to the United States is fixable.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

What's your favorite uninhabited island the Trump administration is using their keen economic acumen to protect Americans from? Good riddance to a market flooded with cheap polar bear goods!

submitted 12 days ago • 47 comments