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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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What I Saw at the Wedding

By Megan McArdle

Jun 13 2010, 6:22 PM ET Comment

[Tony Woodlief]

The ceremony was lovely, the bride radiant, the groom beaming. What followed were drinks, delicious food, dancing, and more drinks. Many more drinks, in some cases. A bit of advice for my co-guest bloggers: hydrate, hydrate, hydrate.

As for Megan and Peter, here are two people, it is plain for all to see, who make one another deliriously happy. The room was filled with brilliant, snarky people, many of them paid to analyze or critique, nearly all of them familiar enough with politics and human nature to spot sentimentality and cons and prevarication a mile off. But watching the newlyweds dance, we were all of us, it seemed, mesmerized by a lovingkindness utterly unsophisticated, entirely without pretense, and sweetly, touchingly innocent. It takes something to make a roomful of intellectuals and sophisticates sigh. I, for one, would like to live in a world where more people love one another like that.

Blessings, Megan and Peter.


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