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If consumer prices of certain pork products are declining, why are they not being piled onto more plates? Find out how higher interest rates, broader inflation, and global demand are impacting the performance of lean hog futures, producer costs, and shoppers’ meat selections, as Sean McGovern, vice president of research at McAlinden Research Partners, Jeff Praissman, IBKR’s senior trading education specialist, and IBKR senior market analyst Steven Levine explore the global economics of the pork industry and its influence on some of the world’s largest meat producers. Also, what can traders and investors learn about the role of foreign exchange on ADRs? And what in the world is ‘scrapple’? All this and more as our agricultural commodity series continues….