\nHe is the lead writer for the Ticker, an economics and politics blog hosted by\u00c2\u00a0Bloomberg L.P.. He appears regularly on\u00c2\u00a0Bloomberg Television\u00c2\u00a0and has appeared on\u00c2\u00a0Real Time with Bill Maher<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0on HBO.\u00c2\u00a0Time<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0named Barro\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Twitter feed one of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3, one of ten in the Politics category.\u00c2\u00a0In 2012,\u00c2\u00a0Forbes<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0selected him as one of the \u00e2\u20ac\u015330 Under 30\u00e2\u20ac\u00b3 media \u00e2\u20ac\u0153brightest stars under the age of 30.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Barro describes himself as a\u00c2\u00a0Republican,\u00c2\u00a0but has expressed opposition to the policies of the Republican party.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Last week the Dish\u00c2\u00a0highlighted<\/a> Chait\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0profile<\/a> of Barro. Andrew Leonard\u00c2\u00a0wrote<\/a> of him recently:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\nHe is, in my opinion, a rare breed indeed: an intellectually honest analyst of political and economic affairs who makes up his own mind, does not hew to any preset ideology and relies on facts to makes his arguments. People who disagree with him have labeled him conservative, liberal\u00c2\u00a0and<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0libertarian. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not easy to achieve! Barro can wage total war against the notion that austerity is the correct prescription for our economic problems while at the same time arguing that public sector unions are bankrupting state governments. I follow him because I always learn something from him, even when I disagree with him. \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Josh Barro is also the gay son of the famously arch-conservative economist Robert Barro, which makes him inherently interesting for reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of his analysis, and everything to do with the social and cultural splits that define our current society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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