Reign of Terror It's not the French Revolution kind of reign of terror but what happens during presidential transitions in the U.S. is sometimes uncomfortable. Today’s firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper by President Trump may signal more fitful actions ahead. Similarly, firebrand progressive Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) is threatening to torment anyone that worked for the Trump Administration. Most previous transfers of power have involved some pranks and a rush to finalize regulations while pardoning friends in trouble. But most have also involved civility and even generosity. When staff of President George H.W. Bush hung a banner at the White House reading “We Will Be Back” after losing to Bill Clinton, the...
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.