2012-05-25 SpaceX Is Doing Business in Space
This is the VOA Special English ECONOMICS REPORT. Space Explorations Technologies, or SpaceX, may be a company to watch in…
2012-05-18 Facebook Stock Goes on Sale
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Facebook is the world’s biggest social network. It has over nine hundred…
2012-05-11 Greece Struggles to Form Government, Unsure about Reform
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Olympic flame was lit in Greece Thursday. (SOUND) The ceremony marked…
2012-05-04 US calls for Fair Exchange Rate at meeting with China
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. American Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has again urged China to let the…
2012-04-27 President Obama Presses Congress on Student Loan Interest
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Student loans and the interest millions of Americans pay on them have…
2012-04-20 World Bank and Inrternational Monetary Fund Open Spring Meetings in Washington
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Representatives of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have gathered…
2012-04-13 US Brings Case Against Apple and Five Book Publishers Over Electronic Books
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States says technology company Apple and book publishers illegally fixed…
2012-04-06 How Gold Became the Gold Standard for Trade
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The best example of something is often called the “gold standard.” It…
2012-03-30 The Supreme Court to Decide if the Government Can Require Health Coverage
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The highest court in the United States is considering the constitutionality of…
2012-03-23 Microcredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Modern microfinance started with economist Muhammad Yunus. In the nineteen seventies, he…
2012-03-16 Limits on Rare Earth Exports Get China in Trade Dispute
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States, European Union and Japan have called for talks with…
2012-03-09 Energy As an Issue in America’s Presidential Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Energy has become an important issue in the American presidential campaign. And…
2012-03-02 Apple in Legal Battle Over iPad Name in China
This is the VOA Special English ECONOMICS REPORT. Industry experts expect the technology company Apple to release a new iPad…
2012-02-24 European Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another 172 Billion
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. European finance ministers agreed to loan Greece about one hundred seventy-two billion…
2012-02-17 Next for India: Chai Points and Coffee Houses
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But, it is now gaining a…