Future Foretold The University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business surveyed almost 50 top economists from the leading American universities for a forecast of where current events are leading us. First, few believe there is a viable competitor to replace the U.S. dollar as the lead reserve currency despite Washington’s use of it as a weapon. A large majority believe that Western sanctions will send Russia into a deep recession. A majority believe that the EU will slip into recession if it rejects Russia’s oil and gas. Notably and despite this likelihood, the EU has pledged to cut Russian gas imports by two-thirds by year end and a large contingent of politicians headed to the information European Council meeting t...
What You Need to Know Today: Russia rejected calls for a ceasefire in the Black Sea, including a proposal to halt attacks on civilian shipping that could help restore grain flows from Ukrainian ports. Tyson Foods announced plans to permanently close its Joslin, Illinois, beef processing facili...
The big news in the cattle markets yesterday was Tyson Foods’ move to close two more beef plants. One of them, the Joslin, Illinois, plant was shuttered immediately after the announcement. The other, in Eagle Mountain, Utah, is a case-ready plant that does not slaughter cattle. Tyson also...
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) on Wednesday. In July, the CPI rose 0.1 percent, seasonally adjusted, and rose 3.4 percent over the last 12 months, not seasonally adjusted. The index for all items less food and energy, or the “core” infla...
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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.