To clarify; do you posit that this year's historically high price of eggs was due to commodity speculation more so than just a reduction in production (due to culling)?

I am not sure that I understand what the lack of a correlation between the change in prices of chicken sold for meat, & the change in prices of eggs demonstrates on behalf of your argument. My knowledge of chicken farming begins & ends with the understanding that chickens raised to produce eggs are generally not the ones sold for meat, but that understanding comes from smaller farms, not industrial scale farming.

I am, truthfully, not that interested in the results with regard to how it affected or affects the egg market, but I am interested in making sure I understand your argument.

Last resevoir built in California was in 1980, population of California was 23.67 Million.

Today population of California in 2020 39.59 Million

We are using water for 15.92 Million more people. I took out my lawn for my part.

Almost perfect inverse relation xy=c

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Not sure about that esophagus data

sample size is too small to make this claim

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Yes, it links to the data. I recommend you amend the newsletter to include the source as well, if you want people to take your publication seriously. (I know it's just a simple 2D line graph of the data, but that's perfectly ok for a professional visualization -- what's not ok is not linking to the data directly if available.)

Your title, or something, needs to clarify that it's either using CPI or adjusted for inflation -- either works. BLS also publishes data on "average price" in USD, which is not adjusted, so what you have is ambiguous at best -- though my initial assumption was that your graph wasn't adjusted, because a lot of times data that's not adjusted does not explicitly specify that it's "not adjusted" -- see e.g. any graph or dataset from IMF. So that really needs to be specified.

I’ll give you $10 if you can find a photo of a pregnant Michelle Obama

You’re saying all it takes to change your core values is someone misunderstanding your intentions?

That pretty impressive given their size.

Are any of those actually more important than Obama tho?

Recently starting learning tableau, any tips on how I can take notes to retain the knowledge. Tried recording videos but that’s just too much space consumption🫠

You know what would make the price of eggs go down?

Stop buying eggs.

Yeah, after the near-monopolistic market control of egg producers decide to lower the price and can no longer blame the avian flu for their high prices. 🤗

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It's actually always been fascinating to me, in the 40 years my mother has banked at the exact same location, it has been owned by 7 different banks.

Each time the smaller bank was bought out by a slightly larger one, that was then taken over by a third. Until now it is owned by one of the big 5 (has been for years now).

Would love to see a graph of the top 5 egg sellers profits over the last 10 years

And small regionals.

Anyway, your point stands. There were something like 30,000 banks in the US in 1980, 15,000 banks in 2008, and 4,000 banks today. Consolidation has been unreal.

Totally fair. Some companies profits are up 40-60% despite saying it's the flu causing price rises. "Cal-Maine's profit increased 65% to $198 million during the three months ended Nov. 26 from a year ago."https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html

Hmm... 60 million does sound a lot, but for perspective, 1 billion wings are eaten on Superbowl Sunday each year.

The other large out break of avian flu

The USDA has put all our concerns to rest by assuring the price will decline 30% off historic high in a year or so. This is cause for celebration! 🙄