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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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Unsafe for Tea Partiers

By Megan McArdle

Aug 24 2010, 9:26 AM ET Comment

A lot is being said about a website that advises tea partiers to stay away from various DC neighborhoods.  I'm not going to wade into the various accusations of racism that are being slung about, other than to note that DC does in fact have a high crime rate, and it's not crazy to tell people who don't know their way around to try to stick to places where there tend to be a lot of tourists.

However, I'll note that I'm currently staying at the home my 65 year old mother rents next to the "off limits" Potomac Avenue metro stop, we're buying a house near the "off limits" New York Avenue metro stop . . . in fact, I have never lived anywhere in DC that was on the approved list.  Either I have nerves of steel, or the warnings are just a tad overwrought.

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