The present Congress has not accomplished very much in the nine months it has been seated in no small part because its members have been spending so much time attacking or defending President Donald Trump. The latest issue is a July phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian president Volodmyr Zelensky in which Trump asked President Zelensky to “look into” the private activities of former Vice President Joe Biden and his son in Ukraine implying that such an investigation could be a quid pro quo for a U.S. economic and military aid package for Ukraine. To ask a high ranking foreign official to investigate a potential 2020 election opponent is highly questionable behavior, and to imply that a needed aid package might...
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
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.