You can forgive people with student loan debt from feeling confused and somewhat frustrated. The Department of Education has shut down a key portal, without explanation, that defines the repayment amounts for millions of college-related loans.

The price of eggs is in the news today—and no wonder. A dozen white Grade A chicken eggs—not the more expensive kind laid by free-range-chickens—reached a shell-shocking price of just under $5.00.

With the unprecedented restructuring wave going on across the federal government, unorthodox (to put it mildly) personnel management, appointment of candidates with little or no background in the departments they’re running and a wave of tariffs the like of which the world hasn’t seen since the 1930s, it’s easy to imagine that something might go wrong with the U.S. economy in the fairly near future.