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Photo: tsevis, Creative Commons, Flickr As the stock market tumbles for yet another day, Big Oil stocks find themselves hard hit. Indeed, energy investments, from Big Oil companies like Exxon (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) to the Amex Natural Gas Index (XNG) to alternative energy like First Solar (FSLR) are suffering massive losses as the hemoraging…
Think about it: We need the caterpillar to create the butterfly. I was at a lunch meeting today and we were discussing the current crisis in the financial markets as a much needed adjustment to the overstimulated system. One of us said something to the effect of, "This system needs to die for us to…
Photo: law_keven, Creative Commons, Flickr Tonight I watched the second presidential debate. Both John McCain and Barack Obama pointed out that energy is a foundation of our economy. But from what they said about energy and the environment, I agree more with Obama’s view of things.
Website copy for social innovation conferences can get a little wordy, so I’d like to take a stab at explaining this thing called "The Feast" in simple language.
Photo: Meguro-jin, Creative Commons, Flickr Some headlines are so disconcerting one is forced to wonder if theyre true, yet this one – U.S. Government Mandates Mercks Gardasil for Immigrants – is not only well-sourced but supported by government web documents.
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Sometimes socially conscious investing works.
Back in August, California’s Air Resources Board passed a mandate requiring that Photo: arbyreed, Creative Commons, Flickr ethanol blend in gasoline be upped to 10 percent (from 5.7 percent). Oil refineries in California have until 2009 to carry out the changes that would bring companies in compliance with the mandate. Tesoro (TSO), however, is fighting…
Yields on tax-exempt money market funds have shot up in the last two weeks due to massive withdrawals from tax-exempt municipal market funds. At an average seven-day annualized yield of 5%, these money market funds are offering the highest yielding short investments since the 1980’s.
Photo: law_keven, Creative Commons, Flickr There was enough money to bail out negligent bankers and Wall Street, but another program – to protect Americans from pharmaceutical, environmental and pesticide contaminants in meat, milk, dairy and eggs – was discontinued recently due to lack of funding.
A recent Wall Street Journal article cites a McKinsey & Co study claiming that American consumers influence 65% of the countrys greenhouse gas emissions. (Consumers in the rest of the world only influence 43% of emissions.) The findings demonstrate that it is the individual and not industry that has power over climate control.
Vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin does have a record of taking on Big Oil and forcing companies like Exxon (XOM — who is suing the state) to make unpleasant concessions in her home state of Alaska.
Does Big Oil see which way the wind is blowing (and where the sun is shining)?
When Mercury, the planetary energy of communication and movement turns retrograde* for three weeks usually three times a year, financial markets tend to act unpredictably as choppy and volatile conditions prevail.
This is a common global warming question, especially from those of us living at or above the 45th parallel.
It’s one thing to hate on the bailout plan and quite another to come up with an alternative, but following are five attempts at a better way forward:
We once reported on a company that prevents junk mail called GreenDimes, but equally annoying, if not as environmentally harmful, are telemarketing calls. For those of you who don’t already know about this, you can register your number on the National Do Not Call Registry to prevent these calls. And the registration never expires.
Whenever I get into a conversation about socially responsible investing, the other person usually says, "Do people really care about socially responsible stocks? Don’t people just care about making money?"
The NCAA basketball tournament is one of the biggest events of the year on Wall Street. I’ve heard of millions changing hands buying and selling teams like stocks throughout the elimination rounds. Shorting is allowed as well as buying. Nearly all the trades are on credit (no money down). I’ve heard of floor brokers on…
If you are looking into energy stocks (which are rather volatile right now, what with all the oil fluctuations), it can be difficult to decide what to go with. ExxonMobile (XOM) and Chevron (CVX) seem a little expensive — even if they are gaining along with the rest of the stock market. This is part…
Principal protected notes are a bit of a misnomer.
Photo: Dead Air, Creative Commons, Flickr Reports from reputable scientific groups like the Global Carbon Project of Australia indicate the rise in global carbon dioxide emissions last year exceeded even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change‘s (IPCC) predictions. This is pretty alarming, considering the IPCC is far from optimistic.
Buying bad assets: Who is going to buy them from the government?
OXY to buy out Plains Exploration & Production (PXP) for $1.25 billion.
Photo: Financial Aid Podcast, Creative Commons, Flickr If you read my blog earlier this week predicting a fall in New York real estate from the Lehman collapse, this big seller ($32 million) could be the first post-Lehman effect on the housing market. Too bad Lehman was the only investment bank not to get a Fed…