Drivers on the West Coast are paying close to a dollar sixty more per gallon than drivers on the Gulf Coast, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s latest weekly survey. The gap isn’t a fluke of one bad week; it’s the widest split of any two regions EIA tracks, and it actually grew last…

Gasoline prices moved in sharply different directions across the country last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s weekly survey of retail stations. While the national average barely budged, drivers in Colorado, Ohio and a couple of other states saw some of the steepest single-week declines the agency logged all year. For households in…

A carton of eggs that cost close to $6 during last year’s bird-flu shortage is cheaper again this fall, but not nearly as cheap as the price farmers are now getting. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service forecasts that farm-level egg prices will end 2026 down 82.1 percent from 2025, while the price…

Stand at the meat case this week and three price tags tell three different stories. Ground beef is pushing toward $7 a pound. A few feet away, pork chops and chicken breast have barely budged all year. That gap isn’t random, and it isn’t a store-by-store fluke — it’s almost exactly what the U.S. Department…

USDA’s Economic Research Service puts next year’s grocery price increase at 2.1 percent. Read one paragraph further in the same August 25 update and that tidy number turns into a range: food-at-home prices could fall 5.7 percent in 2027, or they could climb 10.5 percent, and either outcome would still count as the forecast working…

If you buy a bottle of Canadian whisky, a wedge of Canadian cheese, or a car built in Ontario, the importer bringing it across the border has been paying an extra 50 cents on every dollar of that item’s value since August 22. That cost does not stay with the importer. It works its way…

If you’ve watched ground beef climb past $6 a pound at the checkout counter, the federal government just made a bet that flooding the market with 300,000 more metric tons of imported lean beef trimmings will pull that number back down. The first chunk of that supply, 100,000 metric tons, became available to importers on…

Restaurant meals are set to get costlier at a faster pace than groceries this year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest economic forecast. The agency’s Economic Research Service projects food-away-from-home prices rising 3.6 percent in 2026, while grocery store prices climb a slower 2.5 percent. That’s a wider split than the two categories…

Chocolate bars, bagged candy, and gum are getting measurably more expensive this year, and the increase shows no sign of leveling off before Halloween. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s latest grocery price forecast puts sugar and sweets on track for one of the steepest increases of any food category tracked in 2026, trailing only beef…

President Trump signed two executive orders on the cattle industry at the White House on Friday, September 4, both framed as wins for ranchers. Grocery shoppers scanning the price of ground beef might assume that kind of presidential attention to the beef supply chain comes with a number attached — a rebate, a cap, a…