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Elizabeth Warren: “Two years ago, egg prices were soaring, and the biggest egg…”

Featuring: Elizabeth Warren, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Massachusetts

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Egg producers got caught colluding to inflate prices

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

May have been right about part of this. Ah, come on, you can just say it. I was right to ask questions about inflated prices in the egg market. Look, Two years ago, egg prices were soaring, and the biggest egg producers blamed the price hikes on bird flu. At the same time, these giant companies were still raking in record profits. So I pushed the Justice Department to investigate whether these companies were manipulating the market. (00:20–00:28)

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Asserts that egg prices increased significantly two years ago, with producers attributing it to bird flu.

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