May 6, 2025・Guest Commentaries
Cracked Shells: How Supply Shocks, Not Monopoly, Drive Egg Prices
Are rising egg prices a result of monopoly power? As of late, egg prices are taking a central role in the economic narrative with focus groups, and economists decreeing monopolistic “greed” as the prime cause of a sudden upturn in prices. Yet, this must be insufficient to establish why producers’ have—all of a sudden—become immensely […]