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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, 2 September, 2024
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  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
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    He may be the very best thing to happen to the Harris campaign

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  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Shipping
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    A deal between the US, Canada and Finland to build icebreakers is a model for smart friendshoring

  • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
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    Swamp Notes: Another brick in the (blue) Walz

    Kamala Harris wanted a running mate who could appeal to moderates. Is Tim Walz the right choice?

  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What Kamala Harris should do about crypto Premium content

    Harris is best advised to distance herself from the digital currency charlatans

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  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The power of choosing your words wisely

    Taking care when describing ideas is more important than ever in both politics and economics

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  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
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    Can Kamala Harris strike the right balance on foreign policy? Premium content

    The Democrat needs to reassure international allies, without alienating the US working class

    Kamala Harris
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Kamala Harris must reaffirm her commitment to Bidenomics

    The vice-president looks strong, but must be careful to avoid the trap of getting too close to big business

    Matt Kenyon illustration of an oversized Kamala Harris poster with a row of cutout people standing in front of it
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
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    The Democrats still have the problem of how to lock in the working-class vote

    A man stands at a podium that is placed on top of a box trailer that has two lorries hooked up at either side - one coloured blue and the other red
  • Monday, 22 July, 2024
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    The Democrats need to keep backing, refining and owning the long-term shift towards a post-neoliberal world

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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
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    The idea that mass tourism is creating knock-on effects like price rises is causing tension in the countries most-visited

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  • Monday, 8 July, 2024
    US immigration
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    But even as migration greases the wheels of the US economy, it is becoming the source of increasing political friction

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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
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  • Monday, 1 July, 2024
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  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
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    Its lesson shouldn’t have been to outsource your entire industrial base

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  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
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    How to fix fast fashion

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
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    Why is business so sanguine about Trump? Premium content

    We would likely get a harder edged, more insular, xenophobic and paranoid version in the White House second time around

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  • Monday, 17 June, 2024
    Americas regulation
    How red tape is holding the US back

    American bureaucracy is burgeoning in both public and private sectors

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  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    FT series: the Uninsurable World
    Lloyd’s John Neal: ‘You’ll never find an insurer saying, “I don’t believe in climate change”’

    The chief executive on the nature of risk, Trump vs Biden — and what keeps him awake at night

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  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Bring back patriotism Premium content

    The concept seems to have become bifurcated

    A man holds an American flag during the 157th Brooklyn Memorial Day Parade in New York City
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Supply chains
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    Understanding what our supply chains really look like could help make friendshoring a reality

    Matt Kenyon illustration of two people shaking hands against a backdrop of pie charts and statistical graphs
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Management consulting
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  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    US society
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  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What Google’s antitrust cases mean for democracy Premium content

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    Ian Madrigal, dressed as the Monopoly Man, stands next to the vehicle transporting Kent Walker, president of global affairs at Google and Alphabet, as the he departed federal court in September
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Why the world should learn to love Biden’s tariffs Premium content

    The benefits will go far beyond American shores

    Employees work on a production line at a Chinese workshop for Celxpert Energy Corporation, which makes lithium batteries
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