Kate Mackenzie

2 weeks ago | phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie

Investing in the US has been a good bet for well over a decade. America’s tech industry, its indefatigable consumers, highly profitable firms, and pro-growth fiscal policy has made the country a highly attractive option and contributed to the narrative that its economy is unassailable. This is what has been referred to as the “US exceptionalism” trade, a phenomenon that appears to have come to a sudden end. April was the cruelest month.

Jan 31, 2025 | phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Lara Merling

The United States will be a source of chaos and volatility for the next several years. The first month of 2025 has set the scene.

Dec 17, 2024 | heatmap.news | Kate Mackenzie

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Nov 22, 2024 | alliancemagazine.org | Kate Mackenzie

By Kate Mackenzie, Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC) The New Economies X Brussels conference was held in a very inauspicious moment. We had just seen the most stark rejection and failure of US liberalism. There was acknowledgement of failure in the opening plenary, with Lorenzo Fioramonti saying sadly: “I’m tired of failing”.

Oct 11, 2024 | phenomenalworld.org | Kate Mackenzie |Tim Sahay |Andrew Elrod

At September’s UN General Assembly in New York, Brazil’s President Lula described the international financial system as a “Marshall Plan in reverse” in which the poorest countries finance the richest. Driving the point home, Lula thundered, “African countries borrow at rates up to eight times higher than Germany and four times higher than the United States.”Lula is not alone in this diagnosis.