Josh Barro
Newsletter Writer and Podcast Host at Very Serious
I write a newsletter (at https://t.co/ZoyMCO4aN5), I host the Very Serious podcast, & I co-host https://t.co/UzPB0fX8QJ w/ @popehat Email josh at joshbarro dot com
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1 week ago |
joshbarro.com | Josh Barro
Dear readers,Joe Biden, for some reason, is back on television. This morning, he told the hosts of The View he still thinks he would have beaten Donald Trump if he’d stayed on the ballot last year. He also says he “wasn’t surprised” Kamala Harris lost to Trump — Harris was well-qualified to be president, he says, but she was no match for the powerful weapon of sexism that Trump levied against her.
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1 week ago |
serioustrouble.show | Josh Barro |Ken White
Dear listeners,Sean Combs was indicted in September and a jury is now being selected for his eight-week RICO trial — lightning-fast pacing for a complex federal criminal case. As Ken notes, Combs has been held in custody, which is a reason his legal team would be inclined to hurry.
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2 weeks ago |
joshbarro.com | Josh Barro
Dear readers,Today’s GDP report showed the economy shrinking slightly in the first quarter, at an annualized pace of 0.3%. Not great news. But for reasons economist Jason Furman notes, this figure somewhat overstates how weak the economy was in the first quarter. There was a tremendous surge in imports in the first quarter, which signals that firms were acting to get ahead of expected tariffs, which in turn led to a large buildup of inventories.
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2 weeks ago |
open.substack.com | Josh Barro
Dear readers,Today’s GDP report showed the economy shrinking slightly in the first quarter, at an annualized pace of 0.3%. Not great news. But for reasons economist Jason Furman notes, this figure somewhat overstates how weak the economy was in the first quarter. There was a tremendous surge in imports in the first quarter, which signals that firms were acting to get ahead of expected tariffs, which in turn led to a large buildup of inventories.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Josh Barro |Lael Brainard |Conor Sen
Josh Barro, a contributing Opinion writer, hosted a written online conversation with Lael Brainard, the director of the National Economic Council from 2023 to 2025 and a former vice chair of the Federal Reserve, and Conor Sen, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, to discuss the risks to and uncertainty in Donald Trump's economy. Josh Barro: It's been more than two weeks since "Liberation Day," the day Trump announced massive tariffs that sent global financial markets reeling.
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Joe Biden is never going to run for office again. If you are a professional Democratic spokesperson, there is no reason to keep lighting your credibility on fire by pretending he wasn’t declining in a way that impaired his work.
