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Just because marijuana is now legal in Canada doesn't mean the market for it is easily quantifiable.

In just six years, robots could achieve parity with humans in the workplace, with machines working the same number of hours as people.

We answer questions from our listeners and issue a couple of mea culpas.

The Diamond-Water Paradox poses the question: If we need water to survive and we don't need diamonds, why are diamonds expensive and water cheap?

The European Commission just slapped Google with a $5 billion fine for abusing its Android monopoly. How did it create the alleged monopoly? By making Android free.

Russia has had a huge presence in the news lately. But its economy... not so huge. It's smaller than the economy of Texas. Today on the show, we look at what's been holding it back.

What happens when a new tariff gets put in place? To really see the action, you have to go to Newark, New Jersey.

Creative destruction is a fact of economic life that few products can resist. Graphing calculators are a notable exception.

Today's summer economics read is "What Would the Great Economists Do?" by Linda Yueh, who is a great economist herself.

In 1907, America's financial system ran into trouble. Trust in financial institutions evaporated, and contagion swept through the economy. Then John Pierpont Morgan stepped in.