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16 Facts About Allan Sloan

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Allan Sloan was born on 1944 and is an American journalist, formerly a senior editor at large at Fortune magazine.

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Allan Sloan subsequently became a business columnist on contract for The Washington Post, and since the start of 2023 has been self-employed.

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Allan Sloan attended the Jewish Theological Seminary for two years while he was an undergraduate at Brooklyn College.

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Allan Sloan has spoken about the economy on television shows such as Charlie Rose, The Colbert Report and regularly on American Public Media's radio program Marketplace and heard on NPR.

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Allan Sloan had been complaining about the student newspaper when his English professor, who was the paper's faculty advisor, told him that if he thought he could do a better job, then he should go to work for the paper.

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Allan Sloan got his first writing job in 1968, with the Charlotte Observer; he was originally hired as a sports writer, but later was assigned to writing about real estate.

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Allan Sloan continued working as a journalist, first as a business reporter for the Detroit Free Press, and later as a staff writer for Money magazine.

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Allan Sloan worked as an associate editor for Forbes magazine and as a senior editor.

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Allan Sloan was a self-syndicated columnist for Newsday before leaving for Newsweek in 1995 to become its Wall Street editor.

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In 2007, Allan Sloan left Newsweek and began working as a Senior Editor at Large for Fortune magazine.

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In 2008, Allan 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".

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Allan Sloan went on, in the article, to describe how these corporate "inverters" hesitate when it's time to "ante up" and pay their fair share of taxes.

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On July 22,2014, Allan Sloan spoke before the United States Senate Committee on Finance, and suggested in closing, that it would be "absolutely tragic" if Congress allowed politics to stop reforms that were needed and allow the subject to dissolve into soundbites and rhetoric.

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Allan Sloan left Fortune in 2014, with his last article published in December 2014.

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Allan Sloan has received many awards over the span of his more than 50-year career.

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Allan Sloan was picked as the Business Journalist of the Decade, by Talking Biz News for the first decade of the 21st century.