Josh Barro is the pond slime who got John Derbyshire fired.
Joshua A. “Josh” Barro is an American opinion journalist and the current politics editor at Business Insider.
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.
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, although by late 2013 he had changed his mind. 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.”
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.
Barro lives in Queens, NY. His father is macroeconomist Robert Barro. Barro is openly gay and has written in support of gay marriage.
Derbyshire is libertarian at heart, a pro-abort in creed, a champion of Michael Sciavo's position in the Terry Sciavo controversy, and doesn't understand that tax cuts lead to prosperity.
He's not even a "sort of conservative" on a good day.
FReegards!
