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Rana Foroohar

Global Business Columnist and Associate Editor

Rana Foroohar is global business columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her first book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business,” was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016. Her second book, “Don’t Be Evil: How Big Tech Betrayed Its Founding Principles – And All of Us,” released in 2019, was named Porchlight Business Book of the year. Her third book, “Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World,” was published by Crown in October 2022.

Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME, as assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She also spent 13 years at Newsweek, as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. She is the recipient of the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting, and has received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW), the Newswoman’s Club of New York, the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center.

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  • Monday, 22 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Power, productivity and how our system works Premium content

    What if the productivity gap is really about how large corporations use their economic and political power?

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  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
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    Will abortion be Trump’s downfall? Premium content

    Suburban women in swing states believe the former president’s policies are too restrictive

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  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
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    The precious metal’s surge may herald a whole new world

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  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
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    Voters aren’t happy about the rollback of US abortion rights. Republicans are getting the message.

  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
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    What is gold telling us? Premium content

    This may be the moment we remember as a turning point towards a new world

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  • Sunday, 7 April, 2024
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    The great American transport crisis tells us something

    From the Baltimore bridge collapse to chaos at Boeing, what look like discrete problems are in fact part of a wider dysfunction

  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
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    Beneficiaries of the old paradigm of US financialisation are beginning to express doubts over what it has achieved

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  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
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    An illustration of three people trying to keep a WTO book open
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Does DoJ versus Apple signal a market top? Premium content

    Perhaps we’ll remember this moment in antitrust as a harbinger of a big correction

  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
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  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
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    This isn’t just another old-line battle

  • Monday, 18 March, 2024
    US economy
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    Subsidies, tariffs and good intentions don’t add up to what is needed

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  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
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    Labour unions are urging the Biden administration to investigate China’s dominance of naval engineering, potentially inflaming Sino-American tensions

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  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
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  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
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  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
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  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Who (or what) comes after Biden? Premium content

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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
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  • Monday, 12 February, 2024
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  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
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  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Working It19 min listen
    The return-to-office debate is heating up

    Some major companies are tightening rules about where employees work

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