2010-12-10 President Obama Agrees to Extend Tax Cuts for 2 years
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama announced an agreement with Congressional Republicans Monday. It would extend…
2010-12-03 Commodity Prices Reach a Two-Year High
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Commodities are basic materials that are used and traded worldwide. The price…
2010-11-26 How a Promise to Guarantee Bad Debts Came to Haunt Ireland
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, Ireland’s Prime Minister Brian Cowen announced measures to cut the…
2010-11-19 Groups Offer Ideas to Cut US Deficits
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Continuing debt problems in Greece and Portugal. The banking crisis in Ireland.…
2010-11-12 Indian State Seeks Limits on Microfinance After Reports of Abuses
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Microfinance is a fast-growing part of the financial industry in many developing…
2010-11-05 Fed Gets Ready to Pump 600 Billion More Into US Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Federal Reserve calls America’s economic recovery “disappointingly slow.” So the Federal…
2010-10-29 3D Printers Are Here—And They Make More Than You Think
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. When we print something, a flat page comes to mind. For example,…
2010-10-22 ‘Put-Backs,’ ‘Robo-Signers’ Put New Pressure on US Housing Market
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Since January, lenders have seized or begun the process to seize about…
2010-10-15 US Mining Companies Show New Interest in Rare Earths
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Today we continue our report on the group of chemical elements known…
2010-10-08 China-Japan Dispute Shines Light on Rare Earth Metals
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Few people had ever heard of the natural elements known as rare…
2010-10-01 With Bedbugs, Some People See Pests, Others See Profits
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. They are not even five millimeters long and cannot fly or jump.…
2010-09-24 15 Months Out of Recession, but Not Feeling Like It
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are still slow to hire and unemployment remains near ten percent.…
2010-09-17 Basel Plan Aims to Force Banks to Increase Capital
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The financial crisis of two thousand eight brought attention to a big…
2010-09-10 Obama Urges Steps to Strengthen Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Obama proposed new measures to lift the economy. The…
2010-09-03 A Quick Lesson in Ways Businesses Are Organized
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The simplest…