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Megan McArdle - Megan McArdle is a senior editor for The Atlantic who writes about business and economics. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and The Economist. She is currently on leave.
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Megan was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, and yes, she does enjoy her lattes, as well as the occasional extra-dry skim-milk cappuccino. Her checkered work history includes three start-ups, four years as a technology project manager for a boutique consulting firm, a summer as an associate at an investment bank, and a year spent as sort of an executive copy girl for one of the disaster-recovery firms at Ground Zero � all before the age of 30.

While working at Ground Zero, Megan started Live From the WTC, a blog focused on economics, business, and cooking. She may or may not have been the first major economics blogger, depending on whether we are allowed to throw outlying variables such as Brad Delong out of the set. From there it was but a few steps down the slippery slope to freelance journalism. She has worked in various capacities for The Economist, where she wrote about economics and oversaw the founding of Free Exchange, the magazine's economics blog. She has also maintained her own blog, Asymmetrical Information, which moved to The Atlantic, along with its owner, in August 2007.

Megan holds a bachelor's degree in English literature from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. After a lifetime as a New Yorker, she now resides in northwest Washington, D.C., where she is still trying to figure out what one does with an apartment larger than 400 square feet.
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Flotsam and Jetsam

By Megan McArdle

Mar 19 2009, 4:44 PM ET Comment

Sorry for the light posting today--I went up to New York to go on Fareed Zakaria's show, which will air this weekend.  Warning that posting will be light-to-nonexistant tomorrow and Monday, as I'm taking a few days off.

It was in the makeup chair for Zakaria's show that I found out that Natasha Richardson had died after a completely bizarre accident on the ski slope.  (Yes, I know; I'm out of the loop.  All I can say is, they didn't cover it on CSPAN or Bloomberg News, which are just about all the live television I watch these days.)  What an awful tragedy.  I don't have anything enlightening to say about it--she was lovely, she was talented, and she was far too young.  Also, her husband is my favorite actor.  Beyond that, all I have is the banal observation that we really ought to live each moment as if it were our last, because death certainly can be sneaky.

As for this, consider another banal observation about the incomprehensibility of deep evil made.


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