Dennis Kneale

A Dad’s Death, 50 Years Later

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From DK: The Wall Street Journal on July 23rd, 2021 published my op ed on my father’s sudden death and its aftermath. Below is a longer, more detailed version. My 64th birthday came on July 24th. The same date marked the 50th anniversary of a personal tragedy. At 5:32 a.m. on the morning of my […]

GameStock! Hailing a New War on Short Sellers

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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 […]