Anthony DeBarros

@anthonydb

Data journalist @WSJ. Author, Practical SQL (@nostarch).

wsj.com Joined January 2009

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It’s the most expensive election in history. These candidates are dodging rodents and pawning power tools just to stay afloat. wsj.com/politics/elect…

www.wsj.com It’s a $12 Billion Election. They’re Pawning Their Tools to Stay in It. Inside the threadbare world of congressional underdogs who could barely catch a dime of this year’s flood of campaign cash.

Anthony DeBarros @anthonydb Sep 24

My @wsj.com colleagues put AI-related spending in context with America's earlier large infrastructure buildouts. It's massive. (Gift link.)

wsj.com/economy/the-ai…

www.wsj.com The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.

Anthony DeBarros @anthonydb Sep 3

Chart of the day in the @WSJ in wsj.com/economy/consum…

Anthony DeBarros @anthonydb Sep 1

RIP Wendell Berry.

nytimes.com/2026/08/31/us/…

www.nytimes.com Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92 A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.

Anthony DeBarros @anthonydb Apr 15

Charts! The quarterly @WSJ economic forecasting survey for April in detail -- plus a report card on how our panel of economists fared in 2025. With my colleague @pswsj.

wsj.com/economy/centra…

www.wsj.com The Cost of War: How Economists Predict the Economy Will Fare Economists’ forecasts from a WSJ survey on the outlook for growth, inflation, oil prices and recession risks following the Iran war.