High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Megan McArdle (born January 29, 1973) is a Washington, D.C.-based blogger and journalist. She writes mostly about economics, finance and government policy from a moderate libertarian or classical liberal perspective. Since September 2012 she`s been a special correspondent for Newsweek/The Daily Beast, covering business, economics, and public policy. She was a Bernard L. Schwartz fellow at The New America Foundation. She has had book reviews and opinion pieces published in the New York Post, The New York Sun, Reason, The Guardian and Salon.com.