Jeffrey Sachs: ‘The US doesn’t lead the world any more’

The US is now a ‘rogue nation’, believes economist Jeffrey Sachs, but he is optimistic that the rest of the world is still trying to make progressThe US is becoming a ‘rogue state’, economist Jeffrey Sachs has told a Guardian audience. “But let’s not assume that everything is catastrophic right now”.Sachs spoke at the Guardian’s annual UNGA seminar after seeing President Trump speak at the UN, and said he was “shaken” by what he had hea