Editor's Note: Welcome to Love It or Hate It, a regular dual-column feature that will capture the love-hate relationship America has with some of its biggest, most controversial companies. For past c

We like to think of ourselves as ethical investors all year round at Minyanville. But did you know this is official National Ethical Investment Week and an estimated $2.71 trillion can be characteriz

President Barack Obama today will announce grants ranging from $400,000 to $200 million for equipment designed to boost the efficiency of the nation’s electrical transmission grid.These “

Welcome to Minyanville’s quotes of the week, served up with some quotable historical context for your Friday enjoyment. “Anybody making $100 million a year is engaged in excessive risk.&r

Rallies -- and rally monkeys -- were all the rage yesterday as major markets reached new 2009 peaks, a performance which played particularly well in Peoria with hometown hero Caterpillar (CAT) (

There wasn’t a lot of news today but investors were happy to take stocks to new year-to-date highs while waiting for the bulk of earnings announcements later in the week. The S&P 500 hit a

The peak oil theory is simple on the surface: Over the long haul, oil supplies will diminish. Production rates will reach a peak and then decline. However, the simple Hubbert Curve doesn't account fo

Major markets hit fresh highs for the year yesterday, even as events over Colorado illustrated gravity can’t be kept at bay indefinitely. A point emphasized by Southwest Airlines' (LUV) 5.68% p

Peggy Noonan, maybe the most gifted essayist of our time, wrote a few weeks ago about the vague concern that many of us have that the looming monster has the potential (my interpretation) not only to

One might think that entrepreneur Scott Shickler has been cloned: He owns a full-scale restaurant in Roswell, Georgia, a software company, and is spinning off a gourmet dessert company (not to mentio