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Bringing Down Grocery Prices, Trump Style

CPI food at home is 8% of total CPI weights, fresh vegetables and fruit are 1.1%. Assume half of fresh vegetable and fruit are imported from Mexico (about 2/3 of fresh vegetables are imported from Mexico), and assume only half of the 25% tariff is passed on to US consumers (large country assumption). Then here’s a picture of the CPI for groceries, the January USDA ERS forecast and the implied level of grocery prices, assuming the tariffs are eventually placed.

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If Avian Flu Hits Chicken Flocks, and the CDC Is Muted, Will That Reduce Egg Prices?

Also, if egg prices are not reported, will higher egg prices matter? From Fox5 Atlanta:

The Trump Administration has frozen many federal health agencies’ communications with the public until at least the end of the month.

The freeze affects the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), based in Atlanta, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)—entities tasked with fighting epidemics, ensuring food safety, and advancing disease research, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press.

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