With one day left before the 2020 election, one issue hasn’t received any attention, but it may be the biggest challenge facing policy makers starting in 2021: fiscal policy and the federal budget. We are now one month into the new FY 2021, and don’t have a spending bill for the rest of the year (that expired in December and will have to be finalized in a lame duck session of Congress). We don’t have that fourth leg of the COVID relief support program finished either. That will either be taken up in the lame duck session, with election maneuvering cooled, or, based on the election outcome and control of the Senate, will be pushed until early 2021. But as the economy comes off its huge 33 percent rebound in GD...
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...
From WPI Consulting
Infrastructure investment due diligence
On behalf of a Canadian oilseed processer WPI's team provided market analysis, econometric modeling and financial due diligence in support of a $24 million-dollar investment in a Ukrainian crush plant. Consistent with WPI's findings, local production to supply the plant and the facility's output have expanded exponentially since the investment. WPI has conducted parallel work on behalf of U.S., South American and European clients, both private and public, in the agri-food space.