Why Birds Cling to Their Perches

In her book 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, Suze Orman writes about a time when she was in Mexico. There was a merchant who was selling parrots: they weren't ...

Representative Barber Conable on False Principles

"Hell hath no fury like a vested interest masquerading as a moral principle."

—Representative Barber Conable

Money Distorts News Reporting

In his book, Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distorts the News, Bernard Goldberg recounts a pivotal moment in television news. In the early ...

Businessman Takes a Stand on Slave Labor

In 1524, Martin Luther said, "Among themselves the merchants have a common rule which is their chief maxim, …I care nothing about my neighbor; so ...

Investing in Companies That Harm People?

In the summer of 1997, my internship had ended, and I picked up my last paycheck. How did I employ the talents my Master entrusted to me? I invested a ...

Why Spy Robert Hanssen Betrayed the U.S.

In SPY: The Inside Story of How the FBI's Robert Hanssen Betrayed America, author David Wise tells of his exclusive meetings with Dr. David Charney, ...

Michelangelo Rich but Miserly

In the New York Times, Frank Bruni writes:

The man who lavished his time and energy on many a Renaissance masterpiece did not lavish his money on many ...

Psychologists Discover What Makes People Happy

Psychologists are studying what makes people happy. "Materialism is toxic for happiness," says University of Illinois psychologist Ed Diener. ...

Man Buried with His Money

There was a man who worked all his life and saved as much as he could. He loved money more than anything.

Just before he died, he said to his wife, "When ...

What Turned Darth Vader to the Dark Side

Speaking about his new movie, Attack of the Clones, Star Wars creator George Lucas described how the young Anakin Skywalker became the evil Darth Vader: ...