Josh Barro, Columnist

What I Learned at Newt University

August 28, 2012 at 8:11 PM UTC

Josh Barro is the lead writer for the Ticker, Bloomberg View's blog on economics, finance and politics. His primary areas of interest include tax and fiscal policy, state and local government, and planning and land use. 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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This morning, I attended Newt University’s second class: “We Built It -- Small Businesses and Civil Society Build America.” It is simply amazing how much I learned.

The class was two hours long, and, it being a Newt Gingrich joint, was brimming with too many ideas to count, many of which bore no particular relationship to small business or civil society. Here are some highlights: