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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, 7 July, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    A chance for Europe to rise Premium content

    There is an opportunity for the continent as investors look to diversify away from the US dollar, but seizing it will be difficult

  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Global Economy
    The global economy is suffering from the Rashomon effect

    I’ve never seen as many potentially market moving vectors simultaneously in play

    Matt Kenyon illustration of a figure walking towards two globes overlapping, two hands coming out from opposite directions from the globes, pointing in opposite directions.
  • Saturday, 7 June, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The rich, the ultra-rich and America’s shifting political landscape

    Two wonderfully detailed books explore the widening gap between the super-elites and everyone else

  • Monday, 2 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    The post-neoliberal malaise Premium content

    Who will best react to the economic and geopolitical challenges facing the US?

  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
    US economy
    Early adoption of AI will boost US growth

    Artificial intelligence may buoy stocks even as it destroys jobs

    A rocket lifts off from a gantry in the shape of the initials AI
  • Monday, 26 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    This is possibly Trump’s worst move yet Premium content

    The president’s fresh attack on Harvard is a disaster not just for the university but for America itself

  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
    Military technology
    Defence spending is up — but on all the wrong things

    The changing nature of military operations will affect both markets and politics

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    How will Trump’s trade deals reshape the world? Premium content

    Seismic forces have been unleashed that will transform the global economy

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  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    The markets are declaring tariff victory too soon

    A potential supply and demand shock means the US economy may be in for years of volatility

    Matt Kenyon illustration of Trump standing on a market volatility graph.
  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
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    Trump’s tilt to the left

    Taxing the rich and lowering drug prices? Sounds like a Democrat’s wishlist but these are part of President Donald Trump’s recent agenda

  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump, trade and the special relationship Premium content

    The US president is trying to play Britain off against the EU

  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    US economy
    Why ‘Make Hollywood Great Again’ makes sense

    Trump’s new film tariff proposal is bad economics but smart politics

  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Are we too pessimistic about America? Premium content

    There may be worries about tariffs and the rule of law but one cannot discount US resilience

    A US flag is seen as an Atlas V rocket of United Launch Alliance heads towards orbit after lifting off from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on April 28 2025
  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
    Technology regulation
    How does Trump really feel about Big Tech?

    The question of whether the president is a populist or a libertarian when it comes to Silicon Valley remains unclear

    Illustration of a figure dressed like Trump balancing between a large thumbs up and a thumbs down
  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
    FT Globetrotter
    Washington DC like a local: where FT journalists eat, drink, explore and escape

    Our correspondents share the restaurants, bookshops and hidden gems that make the US capital more than just a political hub

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  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump, tech and the transatlantic trade fight  Premium content

    Europe is moving away from a traditional view of antitrust policy to focus on platforms’ threat to democracy

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  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
    US dollar
    The spectre of dollar doomsday still looms

    Whatever happens with Trump’s tariffs, investors need to prepare for a new market paradigm

    Matt Kenyon illustration of silhouetted figures among the rubble of a smashed, huge dollar coin clock showing five minutes to midnight
  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    Tariffs without industrial policy won’t work

    It’s a lesson that the White House should learn if it wants to build up manufacturing in America

    Men in suits make gestures as they wander through a maze in the shape of a question mark
  • Sunday, 13 April, 2025
    US economy
    America the Unstable

    The US will pay a market penalty for Trump’s turmoil

    A Matt Kenyon illustration of a man holding on to an oversized gauge that is moving towards the red
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Democrats are taking the wrong lessons from Trump’s tariff chaos Premium content

    Going back to the 1990s is not going to fix what is broken globally

    A sign showing Trump’s Trade War behind Democratic senator Tim Kaine as he speaks to reporters following the weekly Democratic Senate policy luncheon
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Are we finally seeing the fall of Elon Musk? Premium content

    Democrats have used Tesla to undermine the entrepreneur and to highlight oligarchs’ role in the Trump administration

    A man places a sign outside a Tesla dealership during a protest against Tesla and Elon Musk outside a Tesla dealership in Los Angeles
  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
    Education
    Trump’s attack on higher education

    His targets are wrong, but reform is sorely needed

    Illustration of a big glass building on a green casting a shadow over a small, old school building
  • Saturday, 5 April, 2025
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter — excesses, expenses and the glory days of New York’s mag men

    The former Vanity Fair editor takes a nostalgic look back at an era when print was king and the publishing industry thrived

  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Tariffs and their discontents Premium content

    If it’s about ‘fairness’ rather than ‘inflation’, views shift

  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
    Trump tariffs
    The realpolitik of Trump’s tariffs

    The president’s trade policy is about power and security, not economics

    A Matt Kenyon illustration of Donald Trump standing in front of a checkpoint gate with the US flag as a backdrop
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