What happens when over 150 million chickens are killed to prevent the spread of Bird Flu?
The supply of chicken and chicken products gets constrained and prices go up.
In just the past two months, over 40 million chickens were euthanized to prevent the spread of this nasty disease.
The Trump administration, though, is following the Biden playbook and pointing fingers at egg producers and darkly suggesting that evil egg producers might be price gouging and driving up the price of eggs out of malign intent.
That is just dumb, both as a theory for why egg prices are going up, and as a way to treat the intelligence of the American people. This is AOC-level economics, and I have to say it ticks me off more than a little bit.
But there it is. After relentlessly avoiding the normal dodging and…
