Egg price watch
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Posting for a friend:
If something becomes four times cheaper, that phrase is ambiguous and often misused.
But if we interpret it literally:
- “Four times cheaper” does not mean it now costs $0.25.
- It should mean that the new price is one-fourth of the original price.
So, if the original cost is $1.00:
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\text{New price} = \frac{1.00}{4} = 0.25
$$Answer: $0.25
️ Note: Some people mistakenly think "four times cheaper" means "$1 minus $4," which makes no sense. The more accurate phrasing would be “the price was reduced by 75%” or “the price is one-quarter of what it was.” -
I'm buying 20 million eggs tomorrow, which should pretty much set me up for life.
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Per dozen it was $4.08 when he won the election, $6.55 when he was inaugurated, and $2.33 as of yesterday.
Since election, they have come down 42% (not 400%).
Since inauguration they have come down 64% (also not 400%).To @Horace 's point, the price should either be $1.02 (election day) or $1.63 (inauguration), if we are taking 400% to mean 1/4 of the cost, in either case, neither is near the $2.33 actual number.
Either way, the numbers Trump says are lies, which is not surprising. I knew that would be the outcome before I even began the analysis.
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Per dozen it was $4.08 when he won the election, $6.55 when he was inaugurated, and $2.33 as of yesterday.
Since election, they have come down 42% (not 400%).
Since inauguration they have come down 64% (also not 400%).To @Horace 's point, the price should either be $1.02 (election day) or $1.63 (inauguration), if we are taking 400% to mean 1/4 of the cost, in either case, neither is near the $2.33 actual number.
Either way, the numbers Trump says are lies, which is not surprising. I knew that would be the outcome before I even began the analysis.
@89th said in Egg price watch:
Either way, the numbers Trump says are lies, which is not surprising.
Putting on my pedantic asshole hat just for a moment, I would say that the numbers are bullshit rather than lies. 'Lies' implies that some degree of thought went into them. Trump just makes stuff up on the spot. He has no idea whether what he says is true or not, because he thinks it doesn't matter.
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Perhaps, but I am stubborn on calling his random facts made up on the spot... "lies". They are incorrect/untrue statements he makes. Clearly my campaign here on TNCR will one day impact what he does!
@89th said in Egg price watch:
Perhaps, but I am stubborn on calling his random facts made up on the spot... "lies". They are incorrect/untrue statements he makes. Clearly my campaign here on TNCR will one day impact what he does!
It is often falsely claimed that the Inuit people have 50 words for snow. I wonder how many words the Trump family have for bullshit.
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The Great Egg Heist
280,000 eggs disappeared from America’s top producer. Then came a ransom note.
At one point, federal agents at the border were seizing eggs more often than fentanyl.
Then in February, bandits grabbed about 100,000 organic eggs from the back of a trailer at a facility in Pennsylvania.
