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Huffington Post blogger and commodities trader Michael Martin's new book, The Inner Voice of Trading: Eliminate the Noise and Profit From the Strategies That Are Right for You, takes a candid look at the psychology of successful trading, with an emphasis on the "softer" side of the art...

Well in advance of it’s June 24th release, Chris Weitz's latest film, "A Better Life" -- a moving story of an undocumented worker and single father raising his son in East L.A. -- was already generating significant buzz. In March, Entertainment Weekly's Dave Karger wrote "we could already...

After twenty years as an actress, Jami Gertz decided to step into the new role of producer. Enlisting the help of veteran dealmaker and former ICM agent Stacy Lubliner, the two founded Lime Orchard Productions.

The partners bring very different but complimentary skill sets to the table. "I grew up...

The tea party is saying something "everyone should hear," says President Bill Clinton, that "everyone but average Americans are doing alright."

In an interview with the Huffington Post's Willow Bay and Yahoo! News, and tied to the start of the Clinton Global Initiative's Annual Meeting this week, Clinton...

***UPDATE*** In two new videos, former President Clinton discusses the efforts to remove the rubble from earthquake-devastated Haiti and offers advice to President Obama: hit the stump and sell your plans directly to the American people.

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When he looks at the economy, Warren Buffett sees "recovery."

In an exclusive interview today with Huffington Post and Yahoo! News, Buffett told Willow Bay that he disagreed with the recent statement by New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman that we are "in...

HuffPost LA Exclusive: Longo, the largest Toyota dealer in the country, offered HuffPost LA a look at how it is managing one of the biggest recalls in automotive history.

In a city as populous, diverse and sprawling as Los Angeles, it's no surprise that we're lacking a geographical hub. In fact we're really quite famous for it. So what better way to harness technology than to create a place online where people can gather and connect around local issues...

World AIDS Day offers us a moment every year to assess how far we've come in the fight against HIV/AIDS and to clarify and quantify the challenges ahead. Since the early 1990s, I have supported the efforts of the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, which works around the world...

Unbridled. Uncensored. Unfiltered. And at times, unpleasant. I know it's very "old media" of me to admit this, but I am often unnerved by the lack of civility on the Web.

You'll have to forgive the old-media mind-set. Before I became a senior editor at the popular political blog the...

BCAM Born! It's hard to miss the banners with the sparkling, red, cracked egg sculpture by artist Jeff Koons sprinkled across the city. This week the Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens the 72,000 square foot, Renzo Piano-designed, $56 million showcase for contemporary art, the Broad Contemporary Art Museum....

Howard Ruby, Founder and Chairman of Oakwood Worldwide, the leading global temporary housing provider, is an accidental environmentalist. Or perhaps I should say award winning, accidental environmentalist? His long-time passion for photography led him to the Arctic where he quite simply fell in love with the polar bears he encountered....

Starting today on Living Now, our top "boxes" will be devoted to three fundamental dimensions that make our lives healthier, more productive, more meaningful, and more fulfilling:

"The Full Life" offers practical how-to info and advice on managing the "business of life" in ways that are more effective and less...

For women of my generation, it was the "juggling act." Jobs, marriage, children, homes, and aging parents were the balls we added, tossing them in the air as our lives filled up and praying they wouldn't come crashing down on our heads. Younger women, many of whom watched their working...

Last week I played several rounds of phone tag with Dr. Rock Positano, whose warning about the dangers of summer's official footwear, the flip-flop, made headlines two weeks ago. "Flip-flops," the director of Non-Surgical Foot and Ankle Service at New York's Hospital for Special Surgery insists, "have single-handedly caused...

NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal is using his super-sized (7-foot 1 inch, 325 pounds) persona, his credibility as a four- time NBA champion, and the platform of a reality TV series to launch a "Shaq Attack" on the nation's childhood obesity epidemic.

Here's a highlight from the premier of "Shaq's...

Like millions of others Thursday morning, I woke up to this headline on the front page of my paper: "Doctors Change Course on Estrogen Therapy." Here we go again! The 'science' behind hormone replacement therapy has put women on a medically engineered, press-fueled, big pharma funded roller coaster ride. When...

I just read the New York Times article about Holly Peterson's The Manny, which hits stores Tuesday, and found this video. Thought you might want to take a look.

Johannesburg, South Africa -- Sometimes, aid for Africa doesn't look like you'd expect it to. On the last day of my visit to South Africa, it looks a lot like Oprah Winfrey. Oprah has lead a truly awe inspiring one-woman crusade to change the lives of the youngest and...

Johannesburg, South Africa -- After decades of neglect, billions of dollars (much of it from U.S. taxpayers) are now flowing into Africa for economic development, poverty reduction, education, and the fight against HIV/AIDS and other devastating diseases. On a weeklong trip to South Africa, the continent's most prosperous country, I...