What's Hot on TheStreet

Here's what Benzinga's reading on our friend, TheStreet.com.
What's Hot On TheStreet Carl Icahn Ups Stake in Hain Celestial Activist Investor Carl Icahn has stepped up his position in consumer products company Hain Celestial HAIN according to the latest regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Market Calls Are Useless -- and Dangerous Google GOOG currently yields 385,000 results for the search "predicted the credit crisis." With so many people apparently having seen disaster coming, it's a wonder how it happened.
Germany Is Smart to Plan for Death of Euro It makes sense that there is a secret group within the German Bundesbank working on a plan to resurrect the Deutsche Mark. It would be a gross failure of national risk management if the central bank did not have a plan. Call it Operation Vollkreis.
Bootstrap Like Spanx to Start a Business You may have heard that "Everything is a function of time and money. You can have it fast. You can have it cheap. But you can't have it fast and cheap." But "bootstrapping" companies continually rework this equation and manage to do both.