Rana Foroohar

Global Economic Analyst, CNN | Global Business Columnist, 'Financial Times'
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Rana Foroohar is a global business columnist and associate editor at the Financial Times and a global economic analyst at CNN. Sought after for her astute analysis, Foroohar speaks to the changes occurring in business, politics, economics, and foreign affairs. Her weekly column is a real-time commentary on emerging markets, the effects of globalization, and the disruption of big tech. She also pens the FT’s Swamp Notes alongside Ed Luce, discussing the intersection of money and power in US politics.

Foroohar is the author of three critically-acclaimed books. Her first book, Makers andTakers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business, about why capital markets no longer support business, was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award. Her second book, Don’t Be Evil:The Case Against Big Tech, was the Porchlight Business Book of the Year. Her latest book, Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post Global World, on the fall of globalization, was named one of the best books of the year by Kirkus. To accompany the book, she produced a three-part film series documenting her travels across the US to explore how a new era of deglobalization will affect farming, manufacturing, and innovation.

In 2019, Foroohar was awarded a SABEW award for her tech and policy coverage at the Financial Times. Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME as an assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She also worked at Newsweek for 13 years as an economic and foreign affairs editor and a foreign correspondent covering Europe and the Middle East. During that time, she was awarded the German Marshall Fund’s Peter Weitz Prize for transatlantic reporting. She has also received awards and fellowships from institutions such as the Newswomen’s Club of New York, the Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs, and the East West Center. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the advisory board of the Open Markets Institute.

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Decoding Trumpanomics

The conventional wisdom in mainstream liberal media is that Donald Trump will tank the economy, blow up the global order, start a trade war with China and collapse the stock market. Supporters believe he'll bring back law and order, lower inflation, and of course, Make America Great Again. The truth is that neither side has it all right. We may see another year or two of market booms and a strong dollar rather than trade wars. We may also see rising, not falling inflation. While Trump's actions will be all over the map, there are certain things we can count on, like a new approach to politics that is all about the art of the geopolitical deal, the use of the US consumer market as a economic bargain chit with other countries, and the rise of a new kind of techno-determinism lead by the Silicon Valley billionaires that helped propel Trump to the White House again. Foroohar will help leaders understand the new political paradigm shift, and what it will mean for countries, companies, consumers and citizens.
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From Efficiency to Resiliency – Supply Chains in a New Era

Trade wars, pandemics, and global conflict have fundamentally changed the way we do business. Companies used to run on an efficiency model, putting money, goods and people wherever it was cheapest and fastest to produce. Now, resiliency is the order of the day, and that requires a new model for global corporations. Using real time reporting and colorful stories, as well as deep quantitative analysis and historical context from her three best-selling books, which critics have called a “trilogy for a new economic era,” Foroohar will lay out the major trends. First, a move from “anywhere” to “somewhere,” as supply chains shorten, shift, and become more dependent on place based production and consumption. Secondly, a move from hyper-concentration to more decentralization as companies look to cut risk and increase global redundancy, no longer depending on a single company, country or currency at a time of increased political, economic, and climate based disruption. And finally, a move from “just in time,” to “just in case” as building resiliency – rather than just efficiency – emerges as a key C-suite goal.
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Sea Change – Economic and National Security in a New World

Political economy pendulum shifts happen slowly, then all at once. While the last half century was characterized by globalization, financialization, and a decreased focus on security, the next fifty years will be all about the opposite. Foroohar will explain what leaders need to understand through the lens of America’s push for greater maritime security. 80 percent of the world’s commerce is done by ship, and yet America is no longer capable of making its own vessels, thanks to a variety of reasons ranging from the post-Cold War “peace-dividend,” to the theory of shareholder value, and failure to factor geopolitical risk onto the balance sheet. That’s a huge vulnerability at a time when there’s never been more economic and security risk in key logistics and transport hotspots, like the Panama and Suez Canals, the South China Seas, and the Arctic, where Foroohar has spent weeks reporting on US, Europe, Russian and Chinese efforts to chart new commercial sea passages, tap rare earth minerals and energy resources, and grab territory in a new Great Game. ((I’ll be previewing materials from the next book)). Learn what the quest for greater maritime security tells us about risk and opportunity in our changing world.
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What Worries Me and What Doesn’t In Global Financial Markets

Markets are at record highs, and yet, there are many risks on the horizon, from a massive run up in public and private debt, to the specter of inflation, bond market crisis and de-dollarization. How does our current political and economic moment compare to other periods of history, like the 20s, 1970s, or 2000s? How is it different? And what's really driving the markets today? While headlines are all about politics, there are deeper economic currents that business people need to understand in order to navigate the next decade. I'll lay out the key issues that leaders need to consider, from the impact of AI and technological disruption to the end of cheap capital and regionalization of trade routes, to the emergence of a new currency order.
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Videos

What Will Trump's Economic Plan Mean for American Wallets?
Rana Foroohar
AI and the future of work
Rana Foroohar
Navigating the new political economy: Risk and reward in a changing world order
Rana Foroohar
How Biden's Inflation Reduction Act changed the world | FT Film
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Why 3D printing is vital to success of US manufacturing | Rana's Foroohar Homecoming | FT Film
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The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business
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The Need for Economic Localization
Rana Foroohar
The Most Pertinent Questions for Economists to Answer
Rana Foroohar
Manufacturing in America, post-globalisation | FT Film
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A Farm In Your Backyard | FT Film: Homecoming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAlq3JUALHY
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Articles

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The courts stand between Musk and a Treasury takeover
Financial Times
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10 days with the US Coast Guard on the new Arctic front lines
Financial Times
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The battle for working people
Swamp Notes | Financial Times
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Maga vs the billionaires
Financial Times
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What luxury is telling us
Financial Times
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What Trump's industrial policy will look like
Financial Times
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What will come of the European project in a Trump presidency?
Financial Times
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Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs
Financial Times
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What to expect from the markets under Trump
Financial Times
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America Inc's new CEO
Financial Times
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Whoever wins, America will still need to turn itself around
Financial Times
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Power, as well as price, matter in a well-run economy
Financial Times
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Why have Americans been moving closer to climate risk?
Financial Times
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The perils of America's chips strategy
Financial Times
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An unpredictable America looks more and more like an emerging market
Financial Times
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There are no easy answers for US Steel
Financial Times
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Google, Apple and the antitrust tipping point
Financial Times
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We need to know where the risks in supply chains really lie
Financial Times
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America needs someone to connect the economic dots
Financial Times
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The new maritime statecraft
Financial Times
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The power of choosing our words wisely
Financial Times
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The power of choosing your words wisely
Financial Times
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Kamala Harris can't count on American labour
Financial Times
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What Kamala should do now
Financial Times
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Immigrants really do get the job done
Financial Times
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Migration, inflation and vacation
Financial Times
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CEOs in the age of anxiety
Financial Times
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How to fix fast fashion
Financial Times
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Charting trade chokepoints: a how-to guide
Financial Times
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The many-sided crisis in consulting
Financial Times
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How to fix America's loneliness crisis
Financial Times
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The White House knows that the global south has a point
Financial Times
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China's hypocrisy on trade
Financial Times
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America (still) has no industrial policy
Financial Times
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Shipbuilding: the new battleground in the US-China trade war
Financial Times
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America’s most powerful union leaders have a message for capital
Financial Times
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What Super Tuesday tells us about the economy of the mind
Financial Times
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The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul
Financial Times
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The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul
Financial Times
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Who (or what) comes after Biden?
Financial Times
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Europe must ask: what if Biden wins in November?
Financial Times
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America now has a high-pressure economy
Financial Times
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America now has a high-pressure economy
Financial Times
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What if it's not the economy, stupid?
Financial Times
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The financial system needs more capital and less complexity
Financial Times
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Business is starting to think more about ROI than DEI
Financial Times
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Content creators fight back against AI
Financial Times
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The Money Ladies' New Year's guide to the 2024 economy
WBUR On Point
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Year in a word: De-risking
Financial Times
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US CEOs start to contemplate Trump, round 2
Financial Times
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We must stop AI replicating the problems of surveillance capitalism
Financial Times
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How to make free trade fairer
Financial Times
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The Great Reordering
Washington Monthly
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The era of cheap is over
Washinton Post
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US antitrust has reached a turning point
Financial Times
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Workers could be the ones to regulate AI
Financial Times
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After Neoliberalism
Foreign Affairs
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How AI could spur a crisis of meaning
Financial Times
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What’s happening to the global economy?
GPS | CNN
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The Possible World After Globalism
The American Prospect
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The high cost of producing cheap food
Financial Times
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The age of wealth accumulation is over
Financial Times
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Is the US starting to resemble an emerging market?
Financial Times
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Everyone pays the cost as the rich keep spending
Financial Times
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Bad news for Big Tech
Financial Times
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America needs to get women back into work
Financial Times
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America needs a proper risk strategy for its relations with China
Financial Times
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A deglobalising world will be an inflationary one
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