Limits of Monetary Policy Progressives in the U.S. House of Representatives led by the Squad’s Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) are proving how little they understand about economics. Their latest demand is that President Biden replace Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Jerome Powell with someone that will focus on eliminating climate risk and advancing racial and economic justice. Fortunately, the House plays no role in confirming the next chairman but sadly the demand reflects a problematic viewpoint. The role of the Federal Reserve is to conduct national monetary policy, supervise and regulate banks, maintain financial stability, and ensure banking services. The role of the Congress is address national policy issues such as t...
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.