On Writing

A way forward for financial bloggers

By Mark W. Anderson
Courtesy of the Googles

In order to have a alternative party to the prevailing wisdom of American capitalism in our daily discourse that would be the equivalent of the Democrat/Republican divide, the U.S. would need at least a couple of million people who believed that Wall Street was not the key to their future retirement, but instead stood as  More

Introduction

By Mark W. Anderson

It stays near you,
This act of writing,
Never strays too far.
Even if other things get in the way
And you sometimes have to act like
You’ve never met it before
A day in your  More

This looks like a Lee Morgan video …

By Mark W. Anderson

But it’s really just a test to see what embedded video will look like on the site.
Please do not panic.

Plus, Benny Golson, too.  More

Man, people in this country can be confused

By Mark W. Anderson

Who knew that Hollywood writers had complete control over the race for the most powerful office on the  More

Bush finds soul mate in Russia’s bloody Beria

By Mark W. Anderson

Imagine if Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, minister of the interior for the Soviet Union during Stalin’s bloody purges in the 1930s, gave a press conference. What would it sound like? it might sound a lot like George Bush today, December 6th, 2005, here in the United States of  More

How does the president of Gabon come up with $9 million, anyway?

By Mark W. Anderson

Remember back in 1998, when Republicans, particularly Tennesee senator-turned-crime fighter Fred Thompson, CIA officer-turned-politician-turned-CIA-chief Porter J. Goss and one-time Strom Thurmond fan Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) were all up in arms over reports that President Clinton sold military technology to the Chinese in exchange for campaign  More

Whither the right to write?

By Mark W. Anderson

Back in August of 2003—a mere three years ago but seemingly in another lifetime—I started The American Sentimentalist with little more than an overabundant belief in my own abilities and boatloads of naivete. But suffice it to say it’s much easier to sell a story about how interest rates affect bond yields than it is  More

A Certain Ruthlessness

By Mark W. Anderson

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Listening to:

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