Pro-Europe Dems The last four of the 80-page Democratic Party Convention Platform is on U.S. trade policy. It has plenty of language excoriating unfair foreign trading practices and includes significant vitriol aimed at China. However, its harshest criticism is aimed at Donald Trump’s approach to these problems, which it concurrently calls harsh and ineffective. The Democrats pledge to work more cooperatively with allies in achieving fair trade objectives. Notably, rather than reciprocating China’s restrictions on U.S. technology companies, they would revert to the prior philosophy that China will eventually adopt American openness. However, the document’s greatest change from Trump policy is that it expresses no quarrels...
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
Illuminating the value of technical research
On behalf of a commodity producer organization, WPI evaluated the outputs from a project that featured a $5 million investment into technical research over multiple years. WPI’s team captured the results of this extensive effort and synthesized them for presentation to the organization’s governing board; among the findings uncovered and presented for the first time was the development of genomic traits proven, via rigorous testing, to provide crop yield advantages of 50 percent or more to U.S. farmers in times of drought. Capturing measurable results from long-term efforts can be challenging. Educating clients on the dynamics of success measurement when quantifiable results are not readily available requires deep client-consultant collaboration and an ability to consider both near- and long-term client aspirations with market/policy dynamics – attributes that WPI brings to every consulting engagement.