Megan McArdle

Who is Megan McArdle?

Megan McArdle is a Washington, D.C.-based blogger and journalist. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy from a right-libertarian or classical liberal perspective.

She began her writing career with a blog, Live From The WTC, started in November 2001. In 2003 she was hired by The Economist to write for their website, and since then she has worked full-time as a journalist and editor, both online and in print. Publications she has worked for include The Economist, The Atlantic, Newsweek/The Daily Beast and Bloomberg View. She was a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at The New America Foundation. She has also had book reviews and opinion pieces published in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian and Salon.com.