A friend of WPI’s and a former colleague to some of us, Hanns Kuttner is a health policy analyst and senior fellow at the prestigious Hudson Institute. He recently wrote an insightful piece about the COVID-19 related shutdown of Smithfield’s pork packing plant in Sioux Falls and the investigative team from the federal government’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that is on site. The key takeaway from Kuttner’s piece is: If the (CDC) team only looks inside the plant, it will miss the question that is most important for the rest of the meat industry: how did this begin? As Kuttner points out: The investigation inside the plant will produce frustratingly-limited detail. The plant has been close...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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Weighing in on strategic realignment
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