Rana Foroohar

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.

When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally

The rise of Wall Street landlords and the decline of homeownership.

By Rana Foroohar In the midst of the housing crisis and Great Recession a few years back, I spent a lot of time traveling through the Inland Empire, a large metropolitan area in the middle […]

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The Economy’s Greatest Illness: The Rise of Unproductive Finance

How financial markets no longer support business, and thus, economic growth

By Rana Foroohar Markets typically react more to economic fundamentals than politics. But these are not typical times, and our economic future is deeply entangled with the political economy. Donald Trump’s presidential victory fundamentally challenges […]

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Want to Kill Your Economy? Have MBA Programs Churn out Takers Not Makers.

Why has business education failed business?

By Rana Foroohar After the financial crisis of 2008, many people predicted that there would be a crisis of capitalism. The best and the brightest would forgo careers filled with financial ledgers and become teachers […]

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