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Rana Foroohar is Global Business Columnist and an Associate Editor at the Financial Times, based in New York. She is also CNN’s global economic analyst. Her book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business” (Crown), about why the capital markets no longer support business, was shortlisted for the Financial Times McKinsey Book of the Year award in 2016.

Prior to joining the FT and CNN, Foroohar spent 6 years at TIME, as an assistant managing editor and economic columnist. She previously spent 13 years at Newsweek, 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 Johns Hopkins School of International Affairs and the East West Center. She is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Foroohar graduated in 1992 from Barnard College, Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the author John Sedgwick, and her two children.

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  • Sunday, 26 January, 2020
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    The president’s ‘roaring geyser’ narrative may be about to run out of steam

  • Friday, 24 January, 2020
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    Counting humanity down to a new abnormal

    The Doomsday Clock jumped forward to 100 seconds to midnight this week

  • Wednesday, 22 January, 2020
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    Big Tech dominance puts platforms in regulatory crosshairs

    Watchdogs growl as traditional antitrust thinking comes under review

  • Tuesday, 21 January, 2020
    Davos 2020
    Tech groups dominate Davos but focus shifts to unicorns

    Antitrust, privacy issues and ‘technology for good’ feature on World Economic Forum agenda

  • Monday, 20 January, 2020
    FT Swamp Notes
    Swamp Notes — Davos edition

    Five tips for any Swampians who find themselves on the Magic Mountain this week

  • Sunday, 19 January, 2020
    Intellectual property
    Tech innovation needs a level playing field

    Big companies can use lawyers to protect IP while smaller players go to the wall

  • Sunday, 19 January, 2020
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    Davos meeting, Meng Wanzhou in court, US earnings

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    All power to the people of China

    Hong Kong saved Tsai. Or perhaps Taiwan saved Hong Kong.

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    Commodities
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    There are many reasons for the US dollar to weaken, which would cause commodity prices to rise

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    Is Bloomberg the billionaire we need?

    The former New York City mayor’s first economic speech hit the right notes

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  • Monday, 23 December, 2019
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    America’s competitiveness problem

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    US trade
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