Milton Moskowitz
I recently saw The Informant, starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistleblower who exposed his company’s blatant conspiracy to fix the price of lysine, an additive given to feedlot cattle and other livestock.  I remember reading the book of the same name by New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald, and [...]

Your investment career started in 1984 at Lehman Brothers.  How did you find your way into SRI?
My first experience with socially responsible investing (SRI) came a bit early in life. Growing up I had a keen interest in the stock market and actually made my first investment in a mutual fund at age eleven.  With [...]

Knowledge is power? Not according to Google and Microsoft. These firms and many others have recently rolled out energy efficiency tools designed for consumers to use on the emerging smart grid. The hope is that knowledge will bring less power, fewer blackouts and reduced carbon emissions.
Investors are beginning to sit up and take notice of [...]

It’s been 64 years since the end of World War II but Holocaust stories in popular culture continue to cascade. Kate Winslet won an Oscar this year for her portrayal of a concentration camp guard in The Reader. John Demjanjuk, who served as a guard at three different death camps, was deported from the United [...]

While it’s easy to blame paltry U.S. gas taxes on auto executives and the craven politicians who work for them, in fact low gas prices are wildly popular in the United States, particularly among the poorer half of the income distribution. What we environmentalists often have missed in the debate over policy is the pressure [...]

New Book Captures the Culture of a Wall Street High-Flier
by Milt Moskowitz
My stepson worked for 17 years at Bear Stearns before it disappeared last year into the bowels of JPMorgan Chase in the shotgun marriage arranged by the U.S. government. He is doing very well today, taking time off to consider his options.
He misses the [...]

Big changes are underway in the world of socially responsible investing (SRI). In just the past five or so years, mainstream Wall Street has reversed course from its longstanding claim that SRI can only hurt financial returns, to embrace the idea that environmental and social issues can have a direct impact on financial performance.  
The Wall Street shops [...]

The latest disaster in the financial markets has once again shown that some of the biggest risks investors face derive from the excesses of free markets themselves.  This time it was unregulated lending, leverage and speculation.  In 2000 it was over-optimistic and at times corrupt Wall Street analysts, gobbling up creative corporate accounting that massaged [...]

Ancient forests in South America…Home Depot…environmental groups protest. It may sound like a Hollywood script about the timber battles of the 1990s, but unfortunately it describes the players in the latest chapter in the ongoing battle to protect remaining endangered forests in the world.
In the heart of the Patagonia region of Chile, the multinational consortium [...]

 “When power leads man to arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.” 
~John F. Kennedy
As I write this, toward the end of 2008, the world is looking crazier and scarier than ever.  I don’t want to add to the multitude of punditry already in place. It’s time to seek the wisdom, [...]