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Setting aside the recent price increase, I'm shocked that their data shows a price of 0.77 in May 2023. A dozen eggs for less than a dollar, and that was after the worst official inflation had already happened?


From the page:

> according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity

You aren't buying eggs on a commodities exchange, you're buying them at the grocery store. There's a lot of overhead between the eggs being sold wholesale as a commodity and the eggs making it to your front door in neat little cartons.




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