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 SwampNotes 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-partfilm 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 Newswoman’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.

Topics

From Efficiency to Resiliency: Re-industrialization and the New Supply Chain Paradigm

For the last half century, companies were encouraged to hoard capital and move labor to where it was less expensive. Emerging markets, particularly China, gave the West cheap stuff, and in return, Asia got jobs and industrial capacity. But in a new and more multi-polar world, this paradigm no longer works. Companies and countries are moving towards less supply chain concentration, with multiple nodes of production and consumption. This comes with huge challenges -- like higher labor costs, and more price inflation -- but also big opportunities, from reduced energy consumption and lower carbon emissions, to greater wealth creation in more communities. Foroohar, who has written about and studied global supply chains since the Rana Plaza factory collapse more than a decade ago, will lay out how business leaders should prepare for the new era.
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The New Political Economy

Our system of market capitalism wasn't handed down on stone tables. Rather, our political economy is like a pendulum that shifts back and forth, from one extreme to another, resetting every 50 years or so. Our economic rules of the road are purpose built for their time — from 18th century mercantilism, to 19th century laissez-faire, to New Deal Keynesianism to the Reagan Thatcher revolution, political economies change to fit the needs of the moment. And right now, we are in the midst of one of those changes, the first in half a century, as we move into the post-neoliberal era. Turning points are bumpy, but come with massive upsides if you understand them. Calling on her three award winning books, which critics have called "a trilogy for a new economy," as well as her up to the minute reporting on geo-economics and politics for the Financial Times and CNN, Foroohar will lay out the once in a lifetime shift that is underway, and what it will mean for politics, economics, and society.

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Brave New World: AI and the Future of Work

What will artificial intelligence create? What will it disrupt? And what will it displace? Throughout history, technology has always been the driver of economic growth and new jobs. But that transition takes time, and it’s only a win-win when the public and private sector can work together to make sure human skills keep pace with technological change. AI has the potential to dramatically increase human productivity. But it also comes with huge ethical challenges. Which countries, industries, and workers are best poised to leverage it? What will it mean for geopolitics? (Hint: the internet globalized the world, but AI may regionalize it). Could it’s deflationary effects help offset other inflationary trends around the world? And how can CEOs and boards best understand and navigate both the potential costs — and the opportunities — of generative AI? Calling on her work for the Financial Times, as well as her three best-selling books on the ways in which technology has transformed business and society, Foroohar will lay out what business leaders need to know about the biggest technological transformation of our time.

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Videos

AI and the future of work
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Navigating the new political economy: Risk and reward in a changing world order
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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
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The Most Pertinent Questions for Economists to Answer
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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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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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What Kamala should do now
Financial Times
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Kamala Harris can't count on American labour
Financial Times
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Migration, inflation and vacation
Financial Times
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Immigrants really do get the job done
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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The global trade system is in desperate need of an overhaul
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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Europe must ask: what if Biden wins in November?
Financial Times
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Who (or what) comes after Biden?
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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A deglobalising world will be an inflationary one
Financial Times
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America needs a proper risk strategy for its relations with China
Financial Times
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America needs to get women back into work
Financial Times
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Bad news for Big Tech
Financial Times
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Everyone pays the cost as the rich keep spending
Financial Times
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Is the US starting to resemble an emerging market?
Financial Times
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The age of wealth accumulation is over
Financial Times
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The high cost of producing cheap food
Financial Times
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The Possible World After Globalism
The American Prospect
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What’s happening to the global economy?
GPS | CNN
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How AI could spur a crisis of meaning
Financial Times

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