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Megan McArdle

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.

A Day Late and a Present Short

By Megan McArdle
Jun 11 2010, 5:44 PM ET Comment

[Tony Woodlief]

Hi folks, I'm Tony Woodlief, writer by dark morning, non-profit management consultant by day, dad of four sweet but very troublesome boys by night. I mostly write about the exploits of my children, my many disagreements with God, and oddities like the inability of McDonald's to properly apportion pickles on a hamburger (here's a hint: they shouldn't all be stacked one atop another). But occasionally I have an opinion about business and economics, and so I'll try to stick with that here.

Try is really the operative word.

Other stuff: I've had essays in places like The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, and World Magazine, and I have a book out just recently, titled Somewhere More Holy. I live on twenty acres outside a little Kansas town, where I shoot snakes on sight. Like my younger, more distinguished, and better looking co-guest bloggers, I also have a dog -- two, in fact -- but unlike some of my co-hosts, I am perfectly willing to blame my dogs for anything I write that offends you. The truth is, I get most of my worst ideas from them, and it's time they start shouldering some responsibility for that.

I'd like to write more, but I just remembered that I have yet to buy a wedding gift for Megan and Peter. I'm torn between a leather-bound copy of Human Action and a nice ratchet set.



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