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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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    A wealth fund could address the economic gap between rich companies and the public sector

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    America’s coming mega-battle over tax

    If Warren becomes Democratic nominee, the 2020 election would turn into a contest with Capital

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    The commercial market, which has been in a bubble for some time, is finally deflating

  • Friday, 4 October, 2019
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    The Gresham’s Law of our democracies

    The monetary principle that ‘the bad drives out the good’ has taken hold in modern public life

  • Monday, 30 September, 2019
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  • Sunday, 29 September, 2019
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  • Friday, 27 September, 2019
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    Handy retorts for Trump supporters

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    Our Marie Antoinette moment

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    Trade unions
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    Younger workers are behind the rise in trade union membership in the US

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    The fraught debate about the nature of China

    There’s potential for gigantic miscalculation between a rising power and a defensive hegemon

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    The reckless analogy between China and Nazi Germany

    The more Beijing is described as an enemy, the more it will behave like one

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    Paradigm shift in wealth distribution is happening faster than imagined

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    Prepare for an entirely new era of investing in which US companies will be playing ‘defensive’

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    Small glimmers of hope for liberal democracy

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    In praise of Emmanuel Macron

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    Summer of fear

    The fallout from the US-China trade war could lead to an economic chill

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