A friend of mine sent this to me. It is an old article about investing in Preferreds. The US government is creating and investing is many banks using a form of preferreds. If they can do it, why not us. Two good ETFs you can use instead of individual shares are PFF and PGF. Fool.com: The Power of Pr...

Every year there seems to be a trade or two that stands out in my mind. Those trades I remember for a very long time. My wife complains I beat myself up too much and that very few of these trades of the year are for the positive. At the end of August, the overall market was down about 12% and I was ...

Ken Ferree and I just filed an amicus brief with the D.C. Circuit in what could be among the most important First Amendment cases involving economic regulation in years:  Comcast’s challenge to the FCC’s cap on the maximum size of a cable operator’s nationwide subscriber-audience.  W...

One of the reasons that so many of us here take issue with proposals to expand regulation of communications, broadband, and media markets is because we have studied the horrendous inefficiencies of economic regulation in practice. We oppose regulatory proposals not because of a “blind faith...

I need not remind anyone here about FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s ongoing “war on cable.” Even if you hate the cable industry or capitalism in general, there’s just no way I can see how anyone who believes in the rule of law and good government can support Martin’s incess...

Alfred Sasako photo: Solomon Times NEWS Journalist, media critic and Solomon Islands political candidate Alfred Sasako is denying his no-show at a conference cost the region a crucial opportunity. Sasako was to be one of the founding speakers for the launch of a new islands information forum, under ...

Faithful readers will recall that, several months ago, I penned a 7-part “Media Metrics” series that took a hard look at the health of the media marketplace. Today, the Progress & Freedom Foundation is releasing a greatly expanded version of these essays that I have put together wit...