Josh Barro Biography
Josh Barro is a senior editor and columnist at Business Insider in the United States. He hosts the weekly radio show Left, Right, and Center on KCRW in Los Angeles.
How old is Josh Barro? – Age
Barro is 37 years old as of 17 July 2021. He was born Joshua A. Barro in 1984 in Massachusetts, in the United States.
Josh Barro Family
Barro is the son of macroeconomist and Harvard University professor Robert Barro. Barro graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology after growing up in Massachusetts. He interned for Grover Norquist during the summer of his junior year of college.
Josh Barro Husband
Barro is a gay man who lives in Manhattan. Zachary Allen, the chairman of TIPAH Consulting and a former Democratic National Committee official, married him in 2017. He is a devout atheist.
Josh Barro Net Worth
Barro has an estimated net worth of $1 million.
Josh Barro Hamburger problem
Barro used the term hamburger problem to criticize the perceived tendency of some progressives in the United States to hassle people on their personal choices. For example, eating meat hamburgers can be criticized based on the arguments that it is harmful to animals, it contributes to global warming and it is unhealthy.
Josh Barro Political views
Barro described himself as a Republican early in his career, but he was critical of many policies. He identified as a neoliberal as well. Barro has been vocal in her opposition to traditional Christian beliefs about homosexuality, claiming that they “linger and oppress” and must be “ruthlessly stamped out.”
Barro became increasingly critical of the Republican Party following the 2012 US elections, writing that “the party’s economic agenda, as embodied in the latest Ryan budget, is simply terrible for the vast majority of Americans.”
Congressional Republicans, according to Barro, are “crazy and awful.” In response to other conservatives’ reactions in the media, The Atlantic dubbed Barro “the loneliest Republican.” According to Ezra Klein, based on Barro’s views, “he doesn’t come across as much of a Republican.” Barro announced his departure from the Republican Party and registration as a Democrat on October 11, 2016, following the Republican Party’s nomination of Donald Trump for president. Barro cited the “fact-free environment in which so many of its voters live, as well as the anti-Democrat hysteria that had been willfully whipped up by so many of its politicians,” as reasons for his decision, which created a “vulnerability in our democracy.”
Josh Barro Career
Barro has previously worked as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a real estate banker for Wells Fargo, the lead writer for The Ticker (a now-defunct economics and politics blog hosted by Bloomberg L.P.), and the politics editor at Business Insider. He appears on Bloomberg Television and MSNBC on a regular basis, and he has appeared on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher and MSNBC’s All In with Chris Hayes. He is currently the host and moderator of the weekly political roundtable radio show Left, Right, and Center, which is broadcast on public radio stations across the United States and is based at KCRW Los Angeles.
He was a vocal supporter of a potential trillion-dollar coin in early 2013, but by late 2013, he had changed his mind. Barro’s Twitter feed was named one of Time’s “140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013,” one of ten in the Politics category. Forbes named him one of the “30 Under 30” media “brightest stars under the age of 30” in 2012, and David Brooks identified him as a member of the “vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conversation.” Barro was named as one of Barack Obama’s favorite columnists by a former aide.
Barro left Business Insider in 2014 to join The New York Times’ “The Upshot.” Barro was rehired as a senior editor by Business Insider in 2016. He left Business Insider once more in 2018 to become a business columnist for New York magazine. He announced his return to Business Insider as a columnist covering politics, business, and the economy in 2020.