Al Hunt

Executive Editor, Bloomberg News

Albert R. Hunt is a Bloomberg View columnist appearing on Mondays. The executive editor of Bloomberg News, he directs coverage of the Washington bureau, which includes more than 250 reporters and editors. Hunt hosts the weekly television show "Political Capital with Al Hunt." In his four decades at the Wall Street Journal, he was a reporter, bureau chief and executive Washington editor and wrote the weekly column "Politics & People." Al also directed the Journal's polls, was president of the Dow Jones Newspaper Fund and a board member of the Ottaway community newspapers. He was a panelist on the CNN programs "The Capital Gang" and "Novak, Hunt & Shields." Al is co-author of books on U.S. elections by the American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution. His Bloomberg column also appears in the International Herald Tribune.

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News Stories with Al Hunt

• Al Hunt on GOP Campaign War Chests, Social Issues

  Al Hunt, executive editor at Bloomberg News, talks about Rick Santorum's fundraising gaining momentum heading into the Michigan primary and Mitt Romney's trouble relating to voters. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)

• Conrad Says an Economic Crisis May Be Only Way to Prod Lawmakers on Debt

  An economic catastrophe like the debt crisis in Europe or a Middle East conflict may be the only way to get congressional action this year on a broad reduction of the U.S. deficit, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad said.

• Conrad Says Crisis May Prod Lawmakers to Cut Debt (Transcript)

  Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad, a Democrat, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend, that an economic catastrophe like the debt crisis in Europe or a Middle East conflict may be the only way to spark congressional action this year on a broad reduction of the U.S. deficit.

• Al Hunt on Santorum’s Momentum, D.C. Fundraising

  Al Hunt, executive editor at Bloomberg News, talks about Rick Santorum gaining momentum heading into the Michigan primary and President Barack Obama's fundraising success. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "InBusiness With Margaret Brennan." (Source: Bloomberg)

• Sununu, Davis on Republicans: Political Capital With Al Hunt

  Former New Hampshire Senator John Sununu and one-time Representative Tom Davis of Virginia, both Republicans, speak with Bloomberg's Al Hunt about the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

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