Megan McArdle

If Only We Could Choose Who the 2% Would Be

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 6, 2020

Rick Santelli, a decade off of leading off the corporate-racist freakout against Obama that created the Tea Party, is back wishing 2% of the world would die of coronavirus so that the markets would just keep going up, no doubt to 36,000. Rick Santelli on...

General

Deep Thoughts from the Beltway’s Favorite Corporate Hack

By Erik Loomis

On November 23, 2019

I'm not sure if McArdle is clueless or is laughing at all the journalists who have lost their jobs when big capital decides to buy up, say, an irreverent sports.

General

McArdleism

By Erik Loomis

On September 17, 2013

Megan McArdle gives some really useful advice to young people who find themselves out of work. Among that advice is take jobs for free, don't complain about the current economic.

Won’t Someone Think of the Benetton-Clad Children?

By Erik Loomis

In General

On February 29, 2012

McArdle outdoes herself in a column entitled (and I swear this is not a parody unless someone hacked the Atlantic site) "Are the Rich Completely Undeserving of Sympathy?" Um, yes. McArdle speaks for those silenced by the leftist conspiracy--rich people with declining Wall Street bonuses...

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Unemployed_Northeastern ☑️☑️☑️ Agreed!
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