Worker-Centric Suicide The Biden Administration says it wants a worker-centric trade policy, but no one is quite sure what that means. The workers at U.S. pharmaceutical companies probably do not think the White House plan to give away patent rights to COVID vaccines is in their interest. With the U.S. Treasury in the lead, 130 countries have just agreed to a $100 billion tax increase on global companies doing business in their country, including U.S. digital companies like Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet (Google), and Facebook. In fact, the new taxes are targeted at the 100 largest global corporations, 58 percent of which are American owned. The Administration defends the action by saying these companies will still pay less tax at home but tha...
Key Takeaways: The CME Group is launching new 90 percent Lean Beef and 50 percent Lean Beef futures and options contracts in July. There are five key factors that must be present in physical markets and futures contract specifications for futures contracts to become successful. The two l...
What You Need to Know Today: The hot, dry weather forecast continues to drive strength in grain futures with corn and soybeans hitting another day of strong gains. Monday’s Crop Progress and Conditions data were in line with market expectations and showed relatively few concerns for the...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.