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It’s already happened. The avian flu has driven supplies down and prices through the roof for eggs. My local deli is now charging an extra surcharge of 40c per egg.

Strange, considering bringing the price of eggs down seemed to be a key message in their campaign? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BPT3xe6jbk

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They could moderate the price for eggs if they wanted. Tariffs on fertilizer will matter in the medium term, so they should have exempted those. Price supports on eggs have a history in the New Deal, so the politics of that will need a facelift to prevent associations with mid-century Democrats.

> They could moderate the price for eggs if they wanted. Tariffs on fertilizer will matter in the medium term, so they should have exempted those.

For an economically smarter tariff response from Canada, rather than 25% on US imports, we could have put in export tariffs to equalize everything at 25%, so e.g. 15% on energy and whatever theoretical amount on fertilizer to bring it up also to 25%.

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