Education
Harvard University.
Harvard University.
He identifies as neoliberal and Republican. Barro"s father is macroeconomist Robert Barro. He has a bachelor"s degree in psychology from Harvard.
Barro previously worked as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as a real estate banker for Wells Fargo, as the lead writer for the Ticker, an economics and politics blog hosted by Bloomberg L.P., and as the politics editor at Business Insider.
He appears regularly on Bloomberg Television and appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on Home Box Office and on All In with Chris Hayes on Microsoft and National Broadcasting Company. In early 2013, he was a prominent supporter of a potential trillion dollar coin, but 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." A former aide of Barack Obama included Barro on a short list of President Obama"s favorite columnists.
He is currently the host and moderator of KCRW"s Left, Right & Center. Barro describes himself as Republican but opposes many policies of the current Republican Party.
He supports elitism, tweeting, "Elites are usually elite for good reason, and tend to have better judgment than the average person."
Barro lives in Queens, New York, is gay, and supports same-sex marriage.
