Josh Barro
Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics.


Josh's primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. He is a frequent contributor to the Boston Globe and a consultant on fiscal policy to the Eurasia Group.

Previously, Barro was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a commercial real estate banker at Wells Fargo. He holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Harvard and lives in Queens, New York.

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