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May 21, 2009
Megan McArdle on the NYT Reporter and his Bankruptcy Book
Megan reads the NYT magazine excerpt from a forthcoming book on debt by a NYT business correspondent. She sympathizes.
Megan reads the book - questions mount.
Megan hears something about personal bankruptices. What, the 2nd wife wasn't so fiscally nice? Megan does legwork.
It's worth reading them in order. Miss McArdle is a very sympathetic person. I had lunch with her last week and we compared notes on all kinds of things personal, world-phenomenal, and gadgetical. I trust her to read things carefully and say interesting things about them, which she did from the first installment. The most recent entry, though, starts to ask really unfortunate questions - and her comments are harsher.
Few of us have room to cast even third stones - but few of us have the nerve to write a book blaming our cracked glass walls on the world financial crisis.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 21, 2009 8:17 PM