Dennis Kneale

Pricey Seats and Cheap Shots

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            In my many years in New York, taking in a few dozen plays on Broadway, I recently witnessed the most gripping, emotionally rewarding performance of my entire life.  Too bad it ended with an anti-Trump cheap shot.  Or was it?             Broadway, ever shameless in its proclivity for retreading old fare, is staging a […]

How to Watch TV in a Crash

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When stocks crash, everyone turns to CNBC, Fox Business et al to watch the carnage and the commentary. Here’s my advice as an anchor with a front-row seat for the last market crash: Don’t Panic. That is what I said in an op ed published this week in The Wall Street Journal. Even in these days […]

Radio Nation

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Here’s a link to my interview with the Financial Exchange Radio Network on my WSJ op ed with advice for the opioid drug industry now under siege by tort lawyers… https://www.spreaker.com/user/10111332/dennis-kneale-wsj-contributor-opioids  

Assault on Opioids

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It has been twenty years since I left The Wall Street Journal, and still I revere the paper and, in particular, its erudite and provocative editorials and op ed pages. That’s twenty years since I snagged a byline in The Journal byline–until just now. Here’s my op ed from Thursday, January 4, 2018, on the Next Big Tort and […]

My Bitcoin Bender

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Second of two parts. Got Dramamine? I could use some in the two weeks since jumping onboard the Bitcoin Bandwagon. By downloading the Coinbase app on your smartphone, you can begin trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in maybe 15 minutes. And so I did. Suddenly, without so much as an on-screen disclaimer or warning of […]

The Bitcoin Bandwagon

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First of two parts. Ain’t it grand? Stocks have surged up almost 30% in the full year since Donald Trump stunned even himself by winning the presidential election. GDP growth, mired below 2% growth for ten years, suddenly is at 3%-plus for two quarters in a row—and the New York Fed now forecasts growth of […]

Fired in Your 50s

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Hi guys, with help from a talented filmmaker friend, I have broken down my recent speech at Carnegie Hall into bite-sized soundbites for faster skimming… in case you find any worthy nuggets of wisdom or humor herein.  Thanks! Part 1:  Caught up in a Daunting Demographic Dilemma Part 2:  So you got laid off . […]

Dennis at Carnegie Hall

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To download video, right-click here: Dennis Kneale and select “Save Link As.” Hello all, had the pleasure of making a speech recently to more than 300 Allianz employees at an auditorium in Carnegie Hall.  The topic had to address a demographic trend, and mine hits close to home: “Fired in Your Fifties, and What You Can […]

Up Now: My Own App!

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Wanna see something kinda cool? First, pick up your Apple iPhone. Now go to the Apple app store. Tap on the magnifying-glass search-line thingie, and enter my name: Dennis Kneale And bingo! I got my own app up in the Apple app store! Now download it, please, whatdya say? It is a “native-mode” app of […]

The Bigger Snoop

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http://bit.ly/1JeHfxL Who’s the bigger snoop–government or Google?  On my panel at the Milken Global Forum, ACLU’s President, an Intel privacy veep, an anti-hacker and a computer scientist debate that question and hold forth on what may already be a moribund idea: the notion that anything we do or say can remain private in a digital […]