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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. More

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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Mental Health Break: Remembering The Wire

By Megan McArdle

Nov 18 2009, 11:49 AM ET Comment

While I was sick, I watched four seasons of Lost in five days.  It's really quite good, and I'm looking forward to watching Season Five with Peter.

But then I saw this compilation of quotes from The Wire that everyone is linking:




(WARNING:  Not even a little bit safe for work.)

And I'm reminded that while I've definitely enjoyed shows like Mad Men and Lost, there has not been a single show that approaches The Wire in quality.  Most of the most intriguing elements of Lost in Season One are solved in ways that are much less interesting than the premise--if they're solved at all.  But the Wire delivered consistently for four seasons, and even Season Five was better than most of what's on television.  Will we ever see its like again?


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