Josh Barro, Columnist

Why Republicans Lack a Compelling Economic Agenda

November 14, 2012 at 7:00 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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Bloomberg View columnist Ramesh Ponnuru has an essential piece in the forthcoming National Review, rebutting several narratives of Mitt Romney’s loss in the presidential election and Republicans’ simultaneous loss of three Senate seats.

Ramesh argues that the Republican Party's key problem is that its economic agenda does not strike most Americans as likely to improve their economic fortunes: