Bloomberg This Weekend

<figure><img src="https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/if3xP7pocGkA/v7/-1x-1.png"><figcaption><div><p>Source: Bloomberg, 0:00</p></div><div></div></figcaption></figure><p>Inflation in the US has cooled from pandemic peaks, but there&#x2019;s a grocery product telling a different story: beef. The price of uncooked ground beef soared by the most since June 2020 in government data released Friday. The broad beef and veal category is up 15% over the past year as of January. On today&#x2019;s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg reporter Enda Curran takes a peek into the American consumer&#x2019;s grocery basket with host David Gura to understand the perfect storm of factors that&#x2019;s setting beef apart. And a fifth-generation Oklahoma rancher reflects on the impact that a fragile market has had on her family business.</p>

Inflation in the US has cooled from pandemic peaks, but there’s a grocery product telling a different story: beef. The price of uncooked ground beef soared by the most since June 2020 in government data released Friday. The broad beef and veal category is up 15% over the past year as of January.

On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg reporter Enda Curran takes a peek into the American consumer’s grocery basket with host David Gura to understand the perfect storm of factors that’s setting beef apart. And a fifth-generation Oklahoma rancher reflects on the impact that a fragile market has had on her family business.

Big Take: Breaking Down ‘Beef-flation’

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