The Thread
Where's the Beef?
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Where's the Beef?
The Thread · Issue #13 · October 5, 2026
Ground beef hit ten dollars a pound at my grocery store, and I went looking for someone to blame. What I found was a cattle herd at its smallest since 1951, money changing hands from ranchers to packers to feedlots, and a ninety-day policy clock running inside a three-year biological one. It's also a lesson in why household inflation…