The debt ceiling and budget agreement talks between Congress and the White House resumed yesterday, after a Sunday phone call between President Biden, as he was returning from Japan, and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (D-California). Talks wrapped up around midnight on Monday. No deal has been reached, but both sides struck an optimistic tone that progress is being made. As President Biden said, both sides agree that “default is not really on the table” and mentioned in a press conference in Japan that he would agree to spending cuts, but not solely on Republicans’ “partisan terms” and that they’d have to move from their “extreme position.” McCarthy said, “We’re going to find a basel...
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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.