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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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  • Sunday, 1 June, 2025
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  • Sunday, 25 May, 2025
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    The changing nature of military operations will affect both markets and politics

  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
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    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

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  • Saturday, 17 May, 2025
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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
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    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
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  • Monday, 5 May, 2025
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  • Tuesday, 29 April, 2025
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  • Monday, 28 April, 2025
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  • Sunday, 20 April, 2025
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  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
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  • Monday, 7 April, 2025
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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
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  • Monday, 31 March, 2025
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  • Monday, 24 March, 2025
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  • Sunday, 23 March, 2025
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  • Saturday, 22 March, 2025
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  • Monday, 17 March, 2025
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    US President Donald Trump holds an executive order, flanked by commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, in the Oval Office
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