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About Moe

“I read that essay. And it has many interesting parts. And I think she's a very smart person.”
—Malcolm Gladwell, November 2009
 
“Whenever any woman is under attack by feminists, I figure she must be a good woman…”
—Robert Stacy McCain, April 2012
 
“Reflects badly on women as a class…”
—Elana Goldman, speaking on the PBS news program 'To The Contrary,' July 2008
 
“It’s clear from the start that Tkacik is only interested in a smear against libertarians, as her description of Hayek as an 'unabashed propagandist who loved Pinochet/hated workers/had sex with his cousin' bears little resemblance to the truth.”
—Studentsforliberty.org, July 2012
 
“Has been covering the death throes of the American economy with all the breathless energy of a sleep-deprived Beatnik on a benzedrine bender with John Maynard Keynes.”
—The L Magazine, October 2008
 
“Maureen 'Moe' Tkacik—whom CNBC should hire right now!”
—Vanity Fair's , 2010
 
“Speaks out against what she calls 'the idiocracy'…”
—the New York Times, May 2008
 
“Moe Tkacik comparing her menses to the Cantonese snack 'stinky tofu'—that was something new.”
—N+1, January 2012
 
“Without exception, the best and most interesting writer working today, at least in America.”
—Attackerman, July 2008
 
“Banished the last disguised remnants of the West’s anxiety about female purity.”
—Doublethink, November 2008
 
“In common party banter around town, she’s often referred to as 'he' until the inevitable correction comes from someone more knowledgeable about the fact that she is a woman.”
—FishbowlDC, December 2010
 
“That story about the forgotten tampon wasn’t just about a nasty feminine product, but also about her own perception that her body was telling her, unpleasantly, that she was living the life of a steely and debauched teenager, while inside, 'there’s this clock that wants you to have had children by now and wants you to have defecated all over the hospital bed in the process and wants you to have found somebody who will accompany you through this odyssey of grossness.'”
—Salon, February 2009
 
“This kind of woman is quick to tell you she 'wears the same thing every day.'”
—New York , March 2008
 
“What Tkacik did not foresee when she wrote the article was the fact that animal prints would become a closet staple and will probably never go out of style…”
—TheStylishCity.com, July 2012
 
“Completely wrapped up in her own self-perpetuating bullshit.”
—Chez Pazienza, July 2008
 
“Certainly the biggest creative talent working under the Gawker banner.”
—Chez Pazienza, October 2008
 
Moe Tkacik has been a professional writer since 1998 and has found it steadily more difficult to get paid pretty much ever since. You can get the basic gist of her "career" arc here and a relatively random sampling of the things she actually remembers writing is available at the below links. 
 

On Malcolm Gladwell

Esther Duflo, Abhijit Banerjee, Sachs-Easterly and the M.I.T. Poverty Action Lab 

Ezra Klein

Rupert Murdoch (and Frank Easterbrook, Chicago School law and economics thuggery etc.)

Andrew Keen (and social networking, and the covert thuggery of anti-net neutrality lobby.)

Barney Frank

Arianna Huffington

Peter Boyer and Jeff Sharlet

On Linda Hirshman part one, and two

Michael Lewis

…and just about every other flawed chronicler of the financial crisis

…also: the rule-proving exception Ron Suskind

…and oh god, the wretched movie version of Too Big To Fail

…and the wretched variety show version The Lost Bank

…and the CIA front behind the coordinated police crackdown on Occupy Wall Street

That tampon story

…and its unfortunate sequel

On John Perkins the Economic Hit Man

On Donald Trump and his convicted ecstasy trafficker business partner

On Xenophon the ur-Keynes

On Wharton and the history of the treasonous institution that is the MBA

And the unusually well-heeled institution that is the Tea Party freshman class of Congress

On Mary Schapiro and the treasonous institution that is the SEC

…and Fannie…and Freddie

…and the First Amendment

…and Abercrombie & Fitch

On the manufactured "shortage" of Adderall

The "economics" of chronic retail markdowns

On Sir Lawrence O'Toole of MSNBC

Ugh, Charles Lane

On the Bronfman heiresses who squandered their fortune on a bizarre cult largely plagiarized from Scientology

On the curious Beltway junior media clique campaign to get me to write a "takedown" of harmless blogger Betsy Rothstein

On the treasonous institution that is the Atlantic Monthly

…and the utterly indescribable one that is the Unification Church-owned newspaper The Washington Times

On the fetid Steve Jobs

And working as a phone sex operator

Or considerably worse working at American Apparel

On the valiant attempts of Jim Cramer, Charlie Gasparino and the Real Housewives of Orange County to transcend the medium and convey the financial crisis to television viewers

On DSK and the utter irrelevance of women within the global financial elite

A really great memoir about a girl's relationship with her pedophile

On the tyranny of touchscreens

Nike v. Vans

The

And the gazillion dollar Barbie v. Bratz legal battle I actually caused

Magnetar, Goldman Sachs and the structured finance scam

Why financial crisis fiction sucks

On the guy who wrote Men Who Stare At Goats who while a little too British for my taste is a pretty courageous reporter 

Talking economic armageddon with Margherita Missoni at a December 2008 socialite ball

…and with a bunch of angry right wing stockbrokers February 2010 "Wall Street Pride" rally

…and some Austrian economics undergrads on a certain November 2010 night at FreedomWorks

…and the Professional Left on the event of Obama's meritless appointments to

…with Dave Chappelle during Hurricane Katrina

…and sleeping next to a few thousand displaced Louisianans a couple weeks later

…and introducing Diplo to old-school deejay Jerry "Geator with the Heator" Blavat

Did you know Nina Garcia's childhood in Colombia was totally "like Scarface" and that her Elle magazine rival Anne Slowey likes to quote James Boswell?