Diluted Brinksmanship Politicians do not usually make unpleasant decisions until and unless they are forced into a corner. That is the whole point of brinkmanship in politics - to force a change in position. However, the two current and most prominent efforts at brinkmanship, the U.S. trade war with China and the government shutdown in Washington over a border wall, have more holes than a slab of Swiss cheese. The Trump administration has been handing out exclusions from its steel and aluminum tariffs, and now USTR is promising to grant more of them if it is forced to impose an additional $200 billion in tariffs in early March should negotiations with China fail. Does China grant exclusions to its counter-retaliatory tariffs? Meanwhile, t...
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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.