McChicken now $2.99 and meals top $15 — fast food inflation shows how broken official numbers really are
🚨 The Dollar Menu is officially extinct. In 2014, a McChicken cost $1. Today? $2.99 — up 199%. A Quarter Pounder Meal? $5.39 to $11.99 — a 122% jump. Wages haven’t doubled. Productivity hasn’t doubled. But prices? In some cases, they’ve tripled. This is why financial… pic.twitter.com/RhLeJiqdIa — Kurt S. Altrichter, CRPS® (@kurtsaltrichter) June 23, …