Sarah Holder

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Odd Lots · Big Take: What a Bacon, Egg and Cheese Teaches Us About the Economy · 23 Apr 2025 podcast

And their bacon egg and cheese has reached $6.

Add in the cost of a cup of coffee and a tip, and my once reliably cheap breakfast just ran me $7.

It's not just my beloved breakfast cart.

Bloomberg actually tracks the price of the key ingredients in a bacon, egg, and cheese, plus a cup of coffee, on a special bacon, egg, and cheese index.

It's updated every month using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, or the BLS.

And this year, the index has reached record highs.

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2019, the commodities that make up an average BEC plus a coffee cost almost $1.90.

If you adjusted for inflation, that means the meal should cost nearly $2.40 today.

But as of March 2025, it topped $3, $3.23 to be exact.

So the story of why these foods have gotten so expensive isn't just about inflation.

It's also about supply.

supply and demand.

gouging.

Global weather patterns and disease.

Land wars and trade wars.

The wins of consumers and the complexities of financial markets.

Now, as Trump's sweeping tariff orders send shockwaves through the global economy and put new pressures on domestic commodities markets, we wanted to look closer at one sandwich that helps explain it all.

Today on the show, we talked to people up and down the bacon, egg, and cheese supply chain, from a Kentucky wheat farmer to a VP at an egg brokerage to a coffee roaster in lower Manhattan.

And along the way, Bloomberg's expert commodities reporters helped us make sense of how this sandwich got so expensive and what it says about the American economy, tariffs, inflation, and more.

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