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

From Google Maps to Yelp to Instagram, the internet gives us access to all sorts of services without having to pay a cent. But are they really free?

Having disrupted the music business, Spotify is trying the same trick with the stock market.

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.

Assigning a grade to a bottle of wine might seem counterintuitive, or even a little absurd, but wine scores have can have a big impact the people who sell wine — and the people who drink it.

The LIBOR interest rate was at the center of a huge international scandal back in 2012. Regulators believed it had to replaced. But is that even possible?

What one embattled smartphone-maker can tell us about China's plan to transform its economy

Today more than two thirds of the guns in America are owned by just 20 percent of gun owners. That's not always good for gunmakers.

Why productivity could be the most important data point in the economy... and how did KFC manage to run out of chicken in the UK - for an entire week?

Concerns about the yield on the 10-year Treasury note going above three percent are overblown.