Megan McArdle

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Megan McArdle: I’ll vote for any of the Democrats. But please nominate someone who can actually win.

July 8, 2019 at 2:26 p.m.

I'm not saying you have to do this to get my support, because you've already got it. You had me at "Not Donald Trump." Now let's talk about the tens...

The failure to jail top bankers in the '08 financial crash, Matt Taibbi says, reflects a double standard for crime in the U.S.

McArdle: Rethinking Lehman 10 years later

September 14, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

I keep being haunted by those conversations from the balmy days before Lehman fell. Because we were all certain then, too.

McArdle: We need a statute of limitations on bad tweets

July 27, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

Last spring, when I was considering coming to work for The Washington Post, I sat down with one of the paper's senior editors for an important conversation. "Before I can...

McArdle: Bernie Sanders wants you to have a good job. But there’s a catch.

April 27, 2018 at 11:22 a.m.

The impulse behind this idea is noble, and correct: that all Americans should be able to earn a decent living for themselves. But nobility can't take a backseat to practicality

McArdle: The social capital index

April 13, 2018 at 12:01 p.m.

Shortly after we learned that my grandfather's cancer had metastasized, the entire family rushed to western New York. His prognosis was measured in months, and we wanted to have one...

McArdle: How safe are driverless cars? It抖阴ap too soon to tell

March 21, 2018 at 10:03 a.m.

If we tell people that self-driving cars are perfectly safe, and that turns out not to be true, the backlash could drive these vehicles off the road before they're able...

Gary Cohn resigned this week as President Donald Trump's chief economic adviser.

McArdle: Cohn didn’t get much done; but it could be worse, and it probably will

March 7, 2018 at 11:52 a.m.

There was never much danger that Gary Cohn was going to dethrone Alexander Hamilton from the position of "most revered presidential economic adviser."

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