Karen Clark, CEO of Green Energy, (OTCBB: GELV) visited with SmallCapVoice.com to discuss how her Company, Green Energy Live, is a fully reporting, publicly-listed engineering and technology company headquartered in Wyoming, Michigan (adjacent to Grand Rapids). The company is focused on developing and commercializing renewable energy gasification systems that convert biomass wastes, currently being dumped in land-fills, into fuel and other valuable co-products. What is unique about the company is that its technology can rapidly and economically be deployed to the waste site rather than vice versa. Thus, a customer’s specific needs are addressed through a complete equipment package with the smallest ecological footprint.

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Waste management service provider Stericycle Inc. (SRCL) earned 55 cents in the third quarter, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 2 cents. Earnings were up about 24% year-over-year, while it improved 9% sequentially on higher revenues and margins.  Revenues showed an increase of 7.5% year over year to $46.5 million helped by recent acquisitions, which added $19.3 million in the quarter. Stericycle completed six acquisitions during the first nine months of this year, which included the recently acquired Healthcare Waste Solutions’ operations in Minnesota and Wisconsin, besides Omni Medical Waste in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  Operating costs decreased to 52.7% of total sales in the quarter from 55.6% in the same period of the previous year following which gross profit expanded to $140.9 million from $123.0 million in the same quarter last year. As a percent of revenue, gross profit improved to 47.3% from 44.4% in the ...

by Dino Delellis

Amongst GM employees, aside from the fear of getting a pink paper next week ( or the week after ) speculation is high as to whether the concept vehicle, being called the Volt, is going to be as revolutionary as the hype suggests.

GM, Ford and Chrysler arrayed a huge number of lawyers and much cherished Washington lobbyists to go after California after it decided to introduce a zero emissions rule on part of all car fleets. While GM was fighting California, it was also building an electric car, 10 years ago called the EV1. The state lost, GM breathed a sigh of relief and promptly destroyed all EV1’s and sold the patents.

It was said that the link between GM and big Oil was never so blatant as when the EV1 was shelved, the many patents accompanying that huge R&D effort was simply sold to BIG OIL.

Balancing …

Treasury TIPS Coming Back into Fashion

Alexander Wissel, Editor in Chief, Investment U

Editor’s Note: From Bloomberg, (TIPS) are starting to look good again. For years their yield wasn’t high enough to justify the speculation, but that’s starting to change. There’s a brief excerpt from Daniel Kruger’s article below. In addition, we’ve included a brief overview on TIPS and where you can find more about them.

“At a time when central banks are attempting to prevent deflation, the hottest investments in the government bond market are securities that protect debt holders against rising consumer prices.

Inflation-linked debt from the U.S. to Japan returned 5.77 percent since November, including price gains and reinvested interest, compared with 1.55 percent for the government-bond market, according to indexes compiled by New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co.

Pacific Investment Management Co., Vanguard Group and

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In a recent post about “bubbly” Treasuries, we got some comments that deserve attention.

First, this is briefly what we said;

“Treasuries have reached bubbly levels, both in terms of low yield and the rate of change of price.

Interest rates will rise when the economy recovers, or when bond buyers demand more long-term interest to absorb trillions of new issues to fund recovery programs. Rising interest rates mean Treasury prices will fall.

… For investors who invest only “long”, closing long positions in long-dated Treasuries, or being alert to a trend reversal necessitating the closing of those positions is recommended.

… For investors who also invest “short”, being alert to a trend reversal creating a shorting opportunity is recommended. The current trend is strongly upward, but could reverse dramatically …”

Some commenters agreed and some did not.

A supportive comment was;

“The safe haven play into Treasuries is demonstrating a true example of a parabolic

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As larger financial institutions struggle with fancy financial instruments and rescue packages, there are many smaller banks in the US that continue to loan and make money as they can. The local bank, where the loan officer actually remembers your name, is doing well and looking to capitalize when and where it can. As with any business in difficult financial times, there are losses to be had, but these types of banks have stepped up to lessen them.

Macatawa Bank Corp., a Michigan Chartered Bank, operates 26 FDIC insured retail branch offices throughout western Michigan. The company has been experiencing solid growth and expects to open additional retail outlets in its Grand Rapids and Zeeland/Grand Haven markets as conditions warrant.

In most respects, Macatawa Bank is the local bank that a community can depend upon for all its banking needs. It was there for a consumer’s first home or business

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Saturday November 1, 2008 Navivest

Freedom Bank, which is based in Bradenton, Florida, was shut down yesterday, by the Commissioner of the Florida Office of Financial Regulation. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was named receiver.

The FDIC has entered into a purchase and assumption agreement with Fifth Third Bank of Grand Rapids, Michigan and Fifth Third will assume all of the deposits of Freedom Bank. The four branches of Freedom Bank will reopen on Monday as branches of Fifth Third Bank. Depositors of Freedom Bank will automatically become depositors of Fifth Third.

As of October 17, 2008, Freedom Bank had total assets of $287 million and total deposits of $254 million. Fifth Third agreed to assume all the deposits for a premium of 1.16 percent which works out to about $2.5 million. In addition to assuming the failed bank’s deposits, Fifth Third will purchase approximately $36 million of assets.

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