Shawn Hagedorn

The US-China trade war spotlights China’s need for exports to offset structurally weak domestic consumption − neither their economy nor ours prioritises middle-class growth. SA’s

Few Americans have passports, overseas trading is a small portion of their economy, and US culture is inward facing. Perhaps such isolation encourages Americans to

Current budgeting difficulties evidence how ANC and SA interests are tightly linked, whereas US-SA relations reflect ANC indulgences which are as reckless as they are

ANC leaders expect to be internationally respected for their ideals despite their indifference toward SA’s massive poverty and a global pivot toward pragmatism. Of all

Will this be the year when we finally acknowledge that youth unemployment is on course to devastate SA?  Most of our young black adults aren’t

Donald Trump’s capacity to threaten SA with tariffs has been greatly undermined by BEE and localisation policies. Trump’s tariff threats are similar to OPEC restricting

ANC leaders who routinely reference historical injustices to criticise Western nations are to welcome leaders of the world’s largest economies, the G20, to SA −

There are compelling reasons to dislike Donald Trump, yet many who had been put-off by him now welcome his realism. Trump’s domestic approval rating has

If confronted by a perilous crisis, would we come together as a nation to objectively assess the situation and then design and execute an effective

US Vice President Harris presumed that, as positive GDP, inflation and stock market trends reflected broadly improving living standards, she could become president by exploiting