Zynismus German Finance Minister Christian Lindner urged the U.S. to apply “friendshoring” by giving American taxpayer EV subsidies to German automakers. Yet the German government has been criticized for its own narcissistic policies, first by defending Nordstream 2 despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, fighting some sanctions against Moscow, limiting support to Kiev, and then purchasing and subsidizing energy for its own citizens to the detriment of other EU member states. Germany’s traffic light coalition government pledged to meet its obligation of spending 2 percent of GDP on defense but then delayed that commitment for two more years, if ever. Fleischpreise German Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir s...
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...
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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.