President Trump’s economic war with China came into sharper focus this week as markets reacted to his latest salvo of tariffs. Critics warned that this conflict is at minimum slowing the economy and potentially forcing a recession. One called it doubling down on a failed strategy. The president notes its effectiveness by citing how companies are leaving China. War hawks are suggesting even nastier tactics ahead, such as delisting Chinese firms from American stock exchanges if they don’t comply with the transparency rules applied to all other publicly-traded companies. Beijing prohibits U.S. regulators from examining its companies’ books by claiming that would be a breach of sovereignty and risks the exposure of state secr...
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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.