One of the curious things is how the price of eggs has become the go-to proxy for the level of inflation in the country. This is due to Trump who during the presidential campaign kept talking about the price of eggs (and bacon) as being extremely high and blaming Joe Biden for it and promising that he would bring prices down on day one of his presidency. Of course, that was rubbish, like pretty much everything he says. Short of imposing direct price controls on specific items, the government has little sway over their prices. Trump has conveniently stopped talking about the price of eggs and indeed of inflation altogether which remains at the levels before he took office. He now says that it may take some time to get inflation down. Well, duh.
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