Josh Barro, Columnist

Is Karl Rove a Deficit Dove Now?

For some reason, Karl Rove seems to like Josh Barro's post arguing that we shouldn't be trying to cut deficits now.

May 15, 2013 at 5:42 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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I was pleased to see this morning that Karl Rove tweeted my post on yesterday's Congressional Budget Office fiscal projections. That's the post where I said CBO's analysis "shows that deficit panic is unwarranted, and that policymakers should focus on boosting the economy instead of cutting debt" -- much like CBO's previous report did.