The Sustainability Sweet Spot

Last week I attended a presentation with Andy Savitz, author of The Triple Bottom Line. As a veteran in the field of sustainability, Mr. Savitz has made a career out of assisting corporations in the design, development, and implementation of sustainability programs. With more pressure on today's corporate world in the "Age of Accountability," the…

Chart of Lehman Brothers

Working on why Lehman has been lagging other financial stocks lately. People are too afraid of sub-prime? They seem to forget that Lehman is a huge beneficiary of Private Equity boom? Is there a big overhang of insiders with stock?

Cramerica Has No Place in the Sun for Solar Stocks

I’ll never forget the first time I saw Jim Cramer’s MAD MONEY. I arrived in Los Angeles, checked into my dirty hotel (after a 24 hour flight) and turned on the TV while I tried to fall asleep. While flicking through the channels, I came across a wide-eyed, over-the-top madman throwing chairs around while discussing…

Cerberus Buys Chrysler

A few days ago, I reported that Canadian auto parts maker Magna International took a definitive step toward buying Chrysler by selling $1.54 billion worth of voting shares to Russian Machines. Well, it turns out that New York-based Cerberus Capital Management emerged from the woodwork and won the bidding war with a $7.4 billion commitment…

Parenting Stress, Plastic or Cloth?

Disposable DiapersThe safest and most time-proven diapering method is the venerable cloth diaper. Following are the top five reasons you should use cloth: 1. Cloth Diapers are better for the environment: Andrea, a nurse practitioner at Tribeca Pediatrics in Manhattan says, “In a given day, if I see thirty patients, I might see two people…

From Russia with Love

Photo: pingnews, Creative Commons, Flickr With Chrysler Group losing $1.5 billion in 2006, DaimlerChrysler (DCX – 82.00) spent the last several months shopping its dangling domestic appendage to anyone willing to take the flagging subsidiary off its hands. While several firms have answered the bell, Canadian auto parts maker Magna International (MGA – 83.92) stepped…

This Week in Citizen Joe (5/14/2007)

It’s a make-or-break week for monumental, historic immigration reform. What exactly that reform looks like we can’t tell you – Dem and GOP senators are still patching together a bill to can win over support from both sides of the aisles – but it’s likely to offer a road to legit status for today’s illegals…

Ford and Navistar Square Off

Just as Ford (F) started to make some headway in its extensive rebuilding program, the Dearborn automaker incurred a noteworthy legal headache from an important engine supplier.  Illinois-based holding company Navistar (NAVZ.PK) filed a $2 billion suit against Ford alleging breach of contract by the automaker for trying to develop its own diesel engine despite an agreement to buy Navistar's Power…

Climate Emergency

Up until now I have been somewhat casual about Climate Change, at least compared with the immediate direct causes of Mass Extinction. It seemed to me that the truly irrevocable consequences of climate were 50 to 100 years away and because climate change is so directly threatening to humanity, we would deal with it eventually.

This Week in Citizen Joe (5/7/2007)

Congress takes a breather from its Iraq battles and turns its attention to fiscal year ’08 this week, hopefully tying up a $2.9 trillion budget resolution – a blueprint that’s used by spending committees to guide their final budgets. The Senate continues to debate FDA authorization bill (S 1082 ), this week voting on an…