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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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A Little Thanksgiving

By Megan McArdle

Nov 24 2011, 10:10 AM ET Comment

10 years ago this week, I started blogging with this post.  We hadn't invaded Iraq, elected our first black president, or passed the largest entitlement expansion in 40 years.  Enron--and Lehman brothers--were going concerns.  I was a lifelong New Yorker, working in a construction trailer besides the still-smoking ruins of the World Trade Center.  The idea of becoming a journalist was about as far from my mind as the notion of becoming an Olympic figure skaer. I hadn't met my husband, or most of the people who were in our wedding.

It's been a pretty great ten years for me, even as it's been a very hard ten years for many in my country.  And a lot of that is thanks to you guys: my readers, my commenters, and of course, my colleagues at the Atlantic.

This year, I'm giving thanks for you all.  I've had much more than anyone can claim to deserve.  I hope that you all have as much to be thankful for today.


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