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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, 23 December, 2024
    Luxury goods
    What luxury is telling us

    A softening in the market is a harbinger of things to come — in both equities and the real economy

    A luxury bag and a watch sit on a shelf with a small man standing between them. Red arrows dangle from both, pointing towards the floor
  • Saturday, 21 December, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast14 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Listener mailbag, the election and 2025

    FT columnists answer your questions about the US election and a second Donald Trump term.

  • Monday, 16 December, 2024
    US economy
    What Trump’s industrial policy will look like

    New legislation raises questions about whether Maga, or Wall Street, will steer the ship in the incoming administration

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a cargo ship.
  • Friday, 13 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What death of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO tells us about America Premium content

    The US is a powder-keg of emotion

    Police place bullet casing markers outside of a Hilton Hotel in Midtown Manhattan where United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson was fatally shot
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What will come of the European project in a Trump presidency? Premium content

    It’s an eerie moment on the continent

    A skiier takes a photo as storm clouds gather in the Italian alps
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    EU economy
    Europeans need to learn some lessons about power — and fast

    The world has changed, but the EU’s worldview hasn’t changed with it

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a figure tiptoeing on the European side of the globe while other two figures standing firmly on each side of him in America and Asia.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    US trade
    Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs

    And the US consumer market is now the world’s richest chip

    Matt Kenyon illustration of gambling tokens around a pile of playing cards with Donald Trump adorning the King as  the top card
  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    Technology sector
    The return of the techno-libertarians

    Silicon Valley billionaires are selling a dream of unfettered markets — but reality is not so certain

    Matt Kenyon illustration of giant robots walking, their feet endangering people on the ground.
  • Sunday, 17 November, 2024
    US economy
    What to expect from the markets under Trump

    We’ll get a short-term high — but many investors are worrying about what comes next

    Illustration of Trump riding a crashing stock market bull with his Maga hat flying off
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Why Kamala Harris lost Premium content

    Her faux pas on trade and tariffs made her look as if she came from the usual neoliberal camp that sold out the working class

    Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shake hands as they attend a presidential debate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 10 2024
  • Monday, 11 November, 2024
    US economy
    America Inc’s new CEO

    Has the US now become a distressed asset?

    Illustration of a big orange sack representing Donald Trump, with a dollar sign on the front and wearing a red tie and raising its arms. Some people are hugging the sack while others collect money falling from the sky
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Higher for longer no matter who’s in charge Premium content

    The reasons we aren’t going back to a cheap money environment are structural

    The Federal Reserve building is seen in Washington
  • Sunday, 3 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Whoever wins, America will still need to turn itself around

    National renewal will require elites to buy into a project of far-reaching reform

    Illustration of figures repairing the broken stars on the US flag
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Shrinks against Donald Trump Premium content

    US mental health professionals take out full-page ad to warn that former president ‘is an existential threat to democracy’

    Former US president Donald Trump opens his arms wide as he speaks at a campaign rally at the Greensboro Coliseum
  • Monday, 28 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Women will decide America’s future

    Where female voters go, the result of the US presidential election follows

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a female and male circular gender symbols connected by a large tick mark and with a male and female figure within each circle
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Three lessons from the US port crisis Premium content

    There’s a massive gap between the profits of the big global shipping groups relative to port workers’ wages

    Cargo cranes at the Dundalk Marine Terminal at the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Maryland
  • Monday, 21 October, 2024
    US trade
    Power, as well as price, matters in a well-run economy

    That’s the lesson to take from both the founding of the Bretton Woods system 80 years ago and the Biden administration today

    Matt Kenyon illustration of the globe as a broken cage from which a figure is escaping
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    How Harris and Trump court Latino voters Premium content

    Succeeding politically with this demographic is crucial to winning the election

    A sign in Spanish that reads “Su voto es su voz”
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Climate change
    Why have Americans been moving closer to climate risk?

    Pandemic-era migration has doubled the number of people in areas most vulnerable to extreme weather events

    Illustration of a hurricane, forest fire and an exclamation mark in a circle. Figures are walking into the area
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    Semiconductors
    The perils of America’s chips strategy

    Progress has been made at home, but what comes next abroad will make a big difference

    Cartoon figures lay circuitry on a computer motherboard that resembles the America flag
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    US economy
    An unpredictable America looks more and more like an emerging market

    Stock markets are roaring but political volatility and social tensions make some investors see the US as a risk to be hedged against

    Illustration of the colours of the US flag, with a row of stars that turn into exclamation marks in triangles. There are two figures looking at the stars/hazard signs
  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What swing states want Premium content

    Kamala Harris is betting a somewhat vague, yet pragmatic approach on the economic front will work where it matters

    Kamala Harris speaks at an event in Pittsburgh
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Dear Kamala: a letter from Pennsylvania Premium content

    You can’t have reconciliation without truth

    Kamala Harris
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    United States Steel Corp
    There are no easy answers for US Steel

    Nippon’s proposed acquisition faces some legitimate pushback

    Illustration of two small figures pushing two gian puzzle pieces together but they won’t interlock as they aren’t the right shapes
  • Monday, 16 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Why Harris is still at risk in swing states Premium content

    The vice-president is not saying enough about re-industrialisation and protecting factory jobs

    Democratic presidential nominee vice- president Kamala Harris speaks during a campaign event in North Carolina on Thursday, September 12
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