Dennis Kneale

Comcast’s Bold Bid: Brilliant or Betrayal?

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Let’s admit it: No one reads “all” of anything anymore, nor wants to do so. It isn’t that we don’t have the time, it’s that we don’t make the time. So here are a few fast, quick thoughts on Comcast’s $45B bid for Time Warner Cable, one of the biggest media deals in years. In fewer than 600 words.

Kneale on the DoomSayers: Peter Schiff

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Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Peter David Schiff is an American businessman, investment broker, author and financial commentator. Schiff is CEO and chief global strategist of Euro Pacific Capital Inc., a broker-dealer based in Westport, Connecticut.

Kneale to Feds: Stay Out of Mortgage Mess

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I should have listened to her. Cut to early 2008, brunch at the self-consciously hip Coffee Shop in Manhattan, where the wait staff waits to be discovered by Hollywood, fashion or the next reality TV show. April Charney, a legal-aid lawyer for defaulting homeowners in Jacksonville, Fla., is talking in ominous, apocalyptic tones about the […]

Cisco’s Stimulus Plan Won’t Cost You One Dollar

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Just spoke to Cisco chief executive John Chambers here at CNBC headquarters, and he has a new stimulus plan for America—one guaranteed to create hundreds of billions of dollars in cash flow without costing the taxpayer a single dollar in new spending. The Obama administration wants to “crack down” on tax loopholes to skim a […]

Obama in Stem Cell Straits

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President Obama faces a messy political fight over the federal court ruling striking down his new, looser policy letting federal grant money pay for stem cell research involving “destroyed” embryos. Obama hands a juicy moral issue to the Republicans if he does the right thing and pushes for Congress to rewrite a 1996 law banning […]