Why are Peeps so expensive in the United States?

Peeps are produced by Just Born, a candy manufacturer founded in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, by Russian immigrant Sam Born (1891-1959). In 1953 Just Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its marshmallow chick line, and replaced the painstaking process of hand-forming the chicks with mass production. read more

Because making movies and running movie theatres is expensive. I’m going to talk specifically about North American / US stats - but the general concept is similar worldwide, just at other price levels. read more

Government-sponsored insurance like Medicaid, Medicare, and Tricare are paid for our your taxes. In addition, we pay exponentially more in our own money for private insurance than in any other country in the world. That is, the overall cost of health care in the United States is exponentially higher than any other so-called developed country. read more