Chester Currier

Chester "Chet" Currier (1945–2007) was a newspaper and magazine columnist and nonfiction book author. He worked for Bloomberg News and the Associated Press, providing daily and weekly columns covering Wall Street, markets and financial matters.

Currier was also noted as a major contributor of crossword puzzles, having published over 1000 large-format puzzles through the Associated Press syndicate.

Biography Currier was born in New York City on 26 March 1945. He attended elementary school in Greenwich, Connecticut, and high school at Berkshire School, a co-educational boarding school in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He was an English major at Amherst College, graduating in 1966 with a bachelor's degree in English. He then served as a lieutenant in the United States Navy (1967–70).

His first financial column for AP was titled Ticker Talk, and provided an irreverent but financially sound analysis of both daily financial events and long-term trends. He added a second column, On the Money in 1979.