Egg prices soar 49% in the last year

Have you seen the price of eggs these days?

It is not exactly an egg-citing time at the supermarket when you are living paycheck to paycheck.

In fact, it is egghausting when you realize that you need to take out a buy now pay later loan to buy a carton of a dozen eggs.

Heck, treating a first date to some eggs would show signs of wealth!

In November, egg prices surged 49.1 percent year-over-year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

On a month-over-month basis, eggs climbed 2.3 percent in November and an astonishing 10.1 percent in October.

Here is the timeline for eggs over the last five years:

Thanks, Jerome Powell!