It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

He is a veteran journalist who worked at Newsweek before being hired by Fortune and has spoken about the economy on TV shows such as Charlie Rose The Colbert Report and regularly on American Public Media's Marketplace found on NPR. Allan Sloan is an American journalist who is senior editor at large at Fortune magazine.

In 2008 Sloan won the Gerald Loeb Award for the seventh time. The prize was given for his story "House of Junk" which showed how subprime mortgages went bad.