The lesson that any thinking person draws from the Stewart saga is that when the government asks questions, run for your lawyer and don't say a word. Had Stewart kept her mouth shut, she'd be OK.

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.