Let 'em eat cake

The English-Muffin Problem

The economy is hot, but the people are bothered. Americans think the country is in dreadful economic shape despite strong wage growth, low unemployment, and steadily declining inflation. We know this from survey after survey. What we don’t really know is how people formed those judgments. To find out, The Atlantic commissioned a new poll. When the results came in, one finding jumped off the screen: Americans are really, really unhappy about grocery prices.

Or muffins. Either way. I seem to recall this ended poorly last time.

Of course, that was in another century and in a land far away.