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2023-03-21 Economy

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Posted by Bobby 2023-03-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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Of course inflation and the high costs not mentioned. Must be the weather.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-03-21 06:01|| 2023-03-21 06:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Mystery Meat(tm)

What makes you sure you know what you are buying? At least in the 'old' days the local butcher actually had carcasses visibly hanging in the back of the shop.

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-03-21 07:40|| 2023-03-21 07:40|| Front Page Top

#3 All this goes right back to 1600 Penna. Ave. and OBiden.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-03-21 07:44|| 2023-03-21 07:44|| Front Page Top

#4 Price increases masked and sold as shortages.
We've seen this used now with how many items the LSD Agenda has eco or carbon issues with?

Posted by Galactic Coordinator Lover of the Veal Cutlets3009 2023-03-21 10:34|| 2023-03-21 10:34|| Front Page Top

#5 drought info available here

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

situation in Mississippi valley has much improved since March but further west in the plains from TX to ND, significant drought has persisted

Posted by lord garth 2023-03-21 10:52|| 2023-03-21 10:52|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Western Nevada and much of California;s critical central valley are back to NORMAL, in a stuuning reversal of three months:
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/CurrentMap/StateDroughtMonitor.aspx?CA

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/data/png/20221213/20221213_CA_date.png

Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-03-21 11:52|| 2023-03-21 11:52|| Front Page Top

#7 Funny how shortage drives up meat prices for vendors, but there's just no feed for grazing so ranchers are selling herds for a loss.

Oh yeah...
2022 Beef Exports Set Annual Records; Strong Finish for Pork Exports
Feed the world.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-03-21 12:06|| 2023-03-21 12:06|| Front Page Top

#8 ELI5: How shortages are a characteristic of Capitalism.

Posted by mossomo 2023-03-21 12:47|| 2023-03-21 12:47|| Front Page Top

#9 It's too expensive now anyway. There is a place near me that processes hogs and steers for people and processes and sells his own.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-03-21 16:10|| 2023-03-21 16:10|| Front Page Top

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