Overall, the U.S. government is starting the new year on a trend toward deficit reduction. This is largely as the result of two trends.Looking back on CY 2013, the preliminary federal spending and revenue numbers show that the U.S. government ended December with a $44 billion monthly surplus compared to a $1 billion monthly deficit.Overall, the U.S. government is starting the new year on a trend toward deficit reduction, albeit slow and steady. This is largely the result of two trends. The first entails the budget crisis negotiations of late 2010 and early 2011, including the Budget Control Act of 2011 that established caps on discretionary spending and instituted the sequester's across-the-board cuts, and the second is the improving econom...
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Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.