Anthony W. Orlando is the Managing Partner of the Orlando Investment Group, LP, and an op-ed columnist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and Hazleton Standard-Speaker. His forthcoming book The Economic Miracle and Our Inheritance: Seeing More Than One Way Through the Loss of a Decade is based on his recent research into our success and gaps in the past decade.
He is a passionately fact-driven writer with a knack for cutting to the core of even the most complicated issues. His expertise includes macroeconomics, finance, American politics and foreign policy, economic and political history, and the history and operation of the movie and television industries.
Anthony has co-authored articles on real estate history and the recent housing bubble in the Wharton Real Estate Review and the World Financial Review. His current research investigates the role of the financial system and credit supply in the business cycle, from a theoretical, empirical, and historical perspective. He also serves as a financial consultant and researcher for The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where his work ranges from advising government officials to high-profile lawsuits stemming from the recent financial crisis.
He has also authored several screenplays in various stages of development in Hollywood, including Homestead, the true story of the bloodiest labor battle in American history; The Forty-Niners, which follows various characters during the Gold Rush of 1849; and The Street, a no-holds-barred view inside Wall Street. He has worked with multiple production companies, including Fierce Entertainment and Big Cat Productions, as well as the movie investment firm PalmStar Media Capital.
Anthony co-founded the Wharton Politics & Business Association, for which he served as President. He also led the Wharton Undergraduate Consulting Club and the Wharton Undergraduate Finance Club and served as Executive Vice President in the Wharton Accounting Society. Due to his success leading these organizations, he was invited to deliver an address at the annual Wharton Undergraduate Leadership Forum. He has also spoken to large college crowds about topics ranging from macroeconomics to health care reform to energy efficiency, alongside such dignitaries as Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Harvard Business School Professor Regina E. Herzlinger, UC Berkeley Professor Jacob Hacker, and American Medical Association President Nancy H. Nielsen.
He has appeared on television, both as an interviewee and a political commentator, beginning when he published Life Is Not a Dress Rehearsal: The Spiritual Journey of a Teenage Traveler at the age of 17. He has worked as a financial consultant at Oliver Wyman Financial Services, an advertising copywriter at WorldNow, a researcher in business history, a teaching assistant in macroeconomics, and the assistant to the purchasing manager of a defense contractor. He is also a member of Mensa International and the World Economics Association and a trustee of the philanthropic Orlando Foundation.
Credentials
- President and CEO, Autumn Lights, LLC
- Op-Ed Columnist, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
- Op-Ed Columnist, Hazleton Standard-Speaker
- Financial Researcher, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- MSc, Economic History, London School of Economics
- BS, Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Thank you.
Good luck Anthony. Look forward to your bright future.
Don’t know how I stumbled on your site but I am an old lady from /weatherly who read and enjoyed every article that Anthony wrote for the (sub) Standard Speaker of Hazleton. I was so disappointed when his articles ended. Then I moved to Oh and here I am finding Anthony again! I think fate played a part and that in some other life( if you believe in that sort of thing) I must have been his grandmother.!! Glad to see you again and now there are so many more youngins I can follow. Hope life brings all of you love, joy and happiness.
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Enjoyed your Q2 column immensely ! Just finished reading Paul Krugman’s “Return of Depression Economics”, which makes much the same arguments that you do about the future of America and what is wrong with the present America. It is an economic fact that the past 30 years in the US have seen a slow but accelerating plutocracy of the rich and a descent of even formerly upper middle class workers into the below average middle class, with millions of homes lost, cars lost, credit lines lost, and futures of children lost. How can the US be the last, best hope of freedom when 2 per cent of America controls 73,000 pages of IRS tqax code, over 50 per cent of US wealth, and most of Congress ? How can we be a world leader in anything with our kids in 20th place and below in math and reading compared to China and others? How can we lead the world in anything with life expectancies and medical care efficiency somewhere below 20th and falling ranking in the world?
I feel badly for my young daughters who will grow up in an America which is not any better and probably worse in terms of equal opportunity than the kids in South Korea and Japan? We will have lots of “service” jobs but few family-sustaining jobs. We will have the rich continuing to write not only the tax laws, but also the social safety net legislation as they are doing now. We will see the most powerless of our citizens (I am talking 150,000,000 people here) ground to dust, with most of them not even realizing it. I really do fear for this society, with our only hope being the demographic probability that the peoples of the minority now become the majority and foreswear greed and promote justice. There is always the “banality of evil” factor, but I look forward to our first Latino President and first Oriental Speaker of the House. God bless America, because until we break the control of the rich, no chance we will ever rise above Wal-Mart worker levels of income.
I gather all those questions were rhetorical. In case they weren’t the answer is, we can’t.