PERSON: Josh Barro

Politics editor

Joshua A. Barro is an American journalist and the current politics editor at Business Insider.<br> <br> He has previously worked as a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as a real estate banker for Wells Fargo, and as the lead writer for the Ticker, an economics and politics blog hosted by Bloomberg L.P.. He has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard.<br> <br> He appears regularly on Bloomberg Television and has appeared on "Real Time with Bill Maher" on HBO. In early 2013, he was a prominent supporter of the trillion dollar coin.<br> <br> Time named Barro's Twitter feed one of "The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013," one of ten in the politics category. In 2012, Forbes selected him as one of the "30 Under 30" media "brightest stars under the age of 30," and David Brooks listed him as part of the, "vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conversation."<br> <br> Barro describes himself as a neoliberal and a Republican, but has expressed opposition to many policies of the Republican party. He has been described by others as conservative, liberal, and libertarian.<br> <br> Barro lives in Queens, N.Y. His father is noted macroeconomist Robert Barro. Barro is openly gay and has written in support of gay marriage.<br> <br> -- Wikipedia