The Economy

Peeps guy dies, egg prices drop.

Correlation or causation? I'll be waiting on the other side of the road.

 

Are you suggesting marshmallow-laying birds migrate?

 

The town I work in is one of the egg-producing capitals of the Midwest, with a giant facility that holds 8.4 million hens that makes it the No. 11 producer in the country. The guy at the top said that almost verbatim a couple of weeks ago.

 

U.S. to test shots against bird flu outbreak, as Biden administration weighs poultry vaccinations

Federal scientists are gearing up to test the first vaccines in poultry against bird flu in years, as Biden administration officials say they have now begun weighing an unprecedented shift in the U.S. strategy to counter the growing outbreak.

The move comes amid mounting concern over the threat posed by the ongoing spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza over the past few years, which has devastated flocks of wild and commercial birds around the continent.

A record 58 million birds — mostly commercially-raised poultry — have died in the outbreak so far, according to figures tallied by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service — either killed by the virus itself or put down in efforts to quash its transmission. Every state has detected the virus spreading among wild birds and 47 have spotted them in poultry.

 

Sylvia Earle: ‘We are on the brink – a million species may be lost’

The renowned oceanographer Sylvia Earle has urged a global gathering of marine experts to rein in industrial overfishing that threatens hundreds of species with extinction and to rethink our relationship with the oceans, calling on humanity to “do unto fish as you would have them do unto you."

In an interview with the Guardian at the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress (Impac5) in Vancouver, the American marine biologist and first female head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says intensive factory fishing is treating marine species the same as farmed livestock, despite being very different.

“So many people seem to think that fish are equivalent to cows and chickens and pigs. We even talk about ‘harvesting’ the sea,” she says. “It’s not a harvest – we’re just out there as hunters.”

 

the aristocrats!

 

The solution to housing costs is building more housing. This is ferociously opposed wherever proposed. There are people in Manhattan, I kid you not, who oppose new construction on the grounds it will require tall buildings.

 

And in Ideal Land, they would be. But here in the actual world, we peasants don’t get to have nice things, and government overreach is well down on the list of reasons.

 

To the extent he's a politician in New York City, he's part of the problem.

Our impenetrable calculus of development and politics and money and graft is - like everything else here - the greatest in the world.

Housing - another local struggle since the time of the Dutch.