A higher-stakes battle lurks beneath the GameStop kerfuffle and the “Rocky”-like victory of the little guy outsmarting savvy hedge fund billionaires on Wall Street. This could be the start of a war on short sellers. It’s about time. Capitalism is optimism monetized—we invest because we believe great things can happen. Short sellers are the destroyers […]
You Can Dislike the Man and Still Vote for His Policies
A version of this article ran on newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/34p94qs With less than two weeks to go until the most important presidential election of our lifetime, it feels less like Trump vs. Biden and more like a vote on President Trump: for his policies, or against his character. This occurred to me the other day […]
Election Year Deficit: Why I Miss Unity, Comity, and, Most of All, Kindness
This article is adapted from my column on Newsmax.com, here: https://nws.mx/30oee3A Last Sunday night, gleefully, I started watching the TLC reality show “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” and the culminating season finale known as the “Tell All.” The real-life romantic partners and exes on the show gathered (online in this cooped-up, locked-down era) to […]
Learnings of a Ghostwriter
It has been a fascinating journey for me, migrating from my lifelong career as an ornery, contrarian journalist to my current role as ghostwriter, content creator, and crisis advisor. Having endured and learned along the way, I now realize: you gotta celebrate the wins when you can. This week one triumph of my transformation showed […]
The Trump Century
Hello all, been too long a lapse since I have posted to my own website. Part of the delay owes to lockdown anxiety: preoccupied with finding work that actually pays. ;-> And now this: The venerable television anchor Lou Dobbs, in his new book published this week, “The Trump Century,” makes the passionate yet fact-packed […]
This Just In
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The Interviewer, Interviewed
http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf Hey guys, did an interview at Milken Global Conference last week with Business RockStars. Click here to check it out. http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf
My Home Invasion
By Dennis Kneale It happened to me around 1:30 p.m. on Thursday afternoon—a scary intruder entered my apartment, invading my sense of safety and privacy in my own home. And he refused to leave. At the start, it had the makings of a home invasion. By the finish, it was kind of sad, and the […]
Why Capitalism Will Save Us
“Capitalism hasn’t failed the poor. Government has failed the poor.” That’s one of the better lines in the opening moments of my recent speech, “In Defense of Capitalism,” at TEDxFultonStreet. It was a case of Dennis in the Lion’s Den: You can click here http://bit.ly/1n6kAea to get the full 13 minutes of me onstage, playing […]
The Author on Armageddon
Author and wealth advisor James Rickards, in his new book “The Death of Money,” tells us to brace for a financial meltown even worse than the one we just barely survived in 2008-09–and he insists it will come within five years or less. Rickards sees any number of threats that could be the trigger for […]