I know that this is all kind of moot in light of the events of the last few days, but someone passed word of this McArdle post to me yesterday, and it seemed to me to capture so much of what has gone wrong in the way the media engaged the debate over deficits and …
Because There Is No Shortage of Folly…Why Not Waste Bytes on McArdle Too?
What follows is all small potatoes in the great scheme of correctly identifying the couture of Emperor Ryan (and the delusions of his many media courtiers, to be unnamed here) — especially in light of James Fallows magnificent dismembering — see John’s post below — of Ryan’s Budget Against America.™* But still, one must pick …
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When You Hit Bottom, Stop Digging…or McArdle’s Kitchen Chronicles redux.
Fair warning: This is way too long and fundamentally way too trivial to bother with. Given all the urgent stuff going on in the world, Megan McArdle hardly deserves anyone’s attention. I’m just posting this to clear my hard drive and brain of a bit of unfinished business. Plus I think I promised several times …
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Megan McArdle’s Reign of Error — or Why Can’t She Get That Damn Calculator to Work.
Oh boy. Speaking of faux hawks, Megan McArdle yesterday decided to start getting serious about the deficit.* In McArdle’s playpen, that means we’ve got to eliminate Social Security for the middle class (and the rich), shifting instead to covering only low-lifetime earners.** There’s more: She offers a Medicare budget “plan” designed to replace the lower …
Megan McArdle is Always Wrong: Academic Bias, Quick Hit Version
(BTW: Apologies in advance for the length of this screed. No truth in titling here. You can always think Playboy and/or wherever it was my junior senator offered his cheesecake and “read” it for the pix. ;) I know that Megan McArdle is a bagatelle in the supermarket of awful opened by the current (and …
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Megan McArdle is Always Wrong (Again!): Kitchen History Edition
There are those who think the least snark directed Megan McArdle’s way is a waste of time — that her Our Lady of Perpetual Error persona is a considered ploy to grab enough attention to make it worth her masters’ while to retain her as Business and Economics Editor of the Atlantic. (Yes, the sound …
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Megan McArdle Gets Something Right
“You Can Have My Double Space When You Pry it From My Cold, Dead Hands” With apologies to Tom Levenson (who would appreciate it if you would fetch him his smelling salts since, after reading the title of this post, he has the vapors), I must confess that I’m on Team McArdle — at least …