Julia Cameron, best known for her landmark book on unblocking creativity, The Artist's Way, has a new book that answers the question, 'How can I live the creative life but still pay my mortgage?'
The graffiti artist who took Facebook stock instead of cash for painting the walls of the social network's first headquarters made a smart bet. The shares owned by the artist, David Choe, are expected to be worth upward of $200 million when Facebook stock trades publicly later this year.
Throughout all the turmoil for the US economy in 2011, U.S. stocks have been surprisingly resilient. "We believe this is a testament to a combination of U.S. economic resilience, U.S. corporate financial strength and pricing power, and severe relative undervaluation of equities," said Thomas Lee, chief U.S. equity strategist with JPMorgan. Lee has compiled eight reasons why he will remain optimistic in 2012
In the biggest victory for consumers since Netflix's recent mea culpa, Bank of America said today that it was abandoning its plan to charge customers a $5 fee every time they use their debit cards. The bank relented, but only after other large banks had indicated that they would not impose similar fees.
Saving energy has evolved from a moral calling to a financial imperative for businesses that have broadened the concept of energy efficiency to one of sustainability.
Two good news stories in the financial sector caught our eye this week: Hefty stock purchases by company officers and directors is growing evidence that insiders believe their companies have the worst of the recession behind them and their stocks should rise this year, analysts said last week.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is turning down a payout worth approximately $75 million. Cook is requesting that he not receive new stock dividends, after receiving just shy of $400 million in compensation last year. One writer chalks it up to classiness.
The Dow Jones industrials index climbed to its highest level in nearly 5 years on Friday, after a surprise drop in the unemployment rate pointed to continued improvement in the labor market. The S&P 500 rose for a fifth straight day and was also on course to close near a 5-year high.
The controversial government bailout of the huge global insurer, AIG, during the worst days of the financial crisis in 2008, will yield billions of profit for the US treasury and taxpayer. The treasury department announced Tuesday that it will sell 234 million shares in American International Group (AIG), bringing the estimated profit on the original AIG TARP assistance to $22.7 billion.
70-year old Thessaloniki mayor Yannis Boutaris stands apart from the political mainstream, pulling off reforms that have so far evaded the national government in its three-year-old debt crisis. In contrast to the rest of Greece, this sea-front city of one million is shrinking debt, cutting business taxes to help firms and paying city employees and contractors on time.
Barclays boss Antony Jenkins has notified the bank's 140,000 employees of a new code of conduct. Even bonuses for 2012 will be assessed against the new Purpose and Values criteria.
By big city standards, Peter Breiter, 41, is an unusual banker. He left a bigger bank, where it was all sell, sell, sell, to settle in the tiny southern German village of Gammesfeld and write transaction slips by hand for its 500 inhabitants.
The Justice Department announced today that Bank of America will pay a record $16.65 billion fine to settle allegations that it knowingly sold toxic mortgages to investors. $7 billion of it will go to consumers faced with financial hardship.
All my favorite romantic comedy films have two things in common, a happy ending and encouragement for those of us who may find it difficult to figure out who really is their proper soul mate. Here are 13 films that inspire us to find -- or appreciate -- our true love.
With its 13th major film in production, Pixar is, at last, turning to a female character to play the sole protagonist. And, like Disney's Mulan, she will turn out to be an inspiration, despite her sassy ways and nonchalance for the breaking of out-dated rules (which rains turmoil down on her kingdom).
Henry Jamison "Jam" Handy; a pioneer of the educational, industrial and documentary film, who contributed immensely to the field of audio/visual communications remains, unfortunately, forgotten. A young documentarian wants to change this.
An Australian designer from Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne is the winner of the 2011 James Dyson award for his Airdrop – a low-cost, low-maintenance tecnology for farming in arid areas. Dyson, an Inventor and entrepreneur, said Edward Linacre's invention shows how simple, natural principles such as the condensation of water can be applied to good effect through skilled design and robust engineering.
Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant genetically modified (GM) crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts.
A new $3M fund being touted as the first of its kind in Canada will be launched tomorrow to support the development of small community-based renewable energy projects.
Paper Companies Find Substitute for Trees