Price Fixing

The Egg Price-Fixing Settlement That Should Make You Furious

📅 July 9, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Egg producers are paying $3.3 million and donating 53 million eggs to settle a price-fixing lawsuit. But the math reveals a harsh truth: the penalty is a tiny fraction of the billions they stole from consumers. Price-fixing isn’t a bug—it’s a feature of consolidated supply chains where the risk/reward ratio favors cheating. This settlement is a slap on the wrist that proves collusion pays.

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Your Eggs Are a $1.22 Billion Scam — and the Industry Wants You to Blame Inflation

📅 July 6, 2026 📂 Tech Industry

Egg companies made $1.22 billion in extra profit by constraining supply and turning a staple commodity into a high-margin product. This isn’t inflation or bird flu — it’s coordinated market power that lets a handful of players profit from scarcity they engineered. Consumers are paying the price for a rigged system, not a natural crisis.

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