Dennis Kneale

SEC: The Ultimate Insider

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Oh now isn’t this rich: The SEC, stung by its failures in the biggest scam of all time (the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme), is hellbent on a search-and-destroy mission to mete out and vanquish all insider trading. Now a new report shows SEC staffers themselves are extremely effective insider traders. Researchers looked at 56 enforcement […]

Wages and Lies

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In these Days of Obama — hand-wringing, feckless and ineffectual — even the wonkiest economic issue is infected with moralizing, business-bashing and political correctness. If you question the fear-mongering of climate-change alarmists, you are a “denier.” If you oppose extended payments for jobless benefits, you are heartless (despite clear evidence that it makes unemployment worse […]

CMCSA-NETFLIX: WHAT NO FCC?

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The Net-neutrality nannies are shocked and outraged by the Comcast-Netflix deal—and by new reports that AT&T is in similar talks with the streamer that gave us the binge-worthy “House of Cards.” They are appalled that Netflix, their poor oppressed corporate hero, would stoop to signing a deal to pay a traffic-bounty to its tormentor, Comcast, […]

Comcast Bid: Ego, Cash & Golf with Obama

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A lot more is at stake than mere money in Comcast’s bold $45 billion bear hug of Time Warner Cable. It is a bid to amass the largest collection of cable systems in the world; a battle for clout against the broadcast networks and other content-makers; and a test of efforts to restrict cable with […]

Netflix: The Real House of Cards

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First of two articles Happy Valentine’s Day, honey. Instead of going out to an overpriced dinner in a restaurant crowded with a few dozen other tired, tense couples, how about we stay in and binge? On “House of Cards,” season 2. Netflix today posted all 13 episodes of the much-anticipated second season of the Kevin […]

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.