2010-08-27 GM to Test Investors’ Hunger for Risk With Stock Offering
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America’s biggest carmaker accepted fifty billion dollars in federal aid from the…
2010-08-20 Verizon and Google Propose Rules of the Road for the Internet
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, Verizon and Google proposed a plan they say could keep…
2010-08-13 The Rise and Fall of Mark Hurd as H-P Chief
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Mark Hurd got credit for building Hewlett-Packard into the world’s largest technology…
2010-08-06 UAE, Other Nations Target BlackBerry for Access to User Information
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. BlackBerry service is facing limits or bans in some countries over the…
2010-07-30 An Air Show for Showing Off; West Bank’s Speed Sisters
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the largest air shows in the United States is also…
2010-07-23 Financial Reform Law Aims to Change Some of the Ways of Wall Street
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, President Obama signed into law the Wall Street Reform and…
2010-07-16 Inventors Given Hope on Business Method Patents
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided a case on the property…
2010-07-09 Obama Looks for Hope in Exports to Create Jobs
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The International Monetary Fund has raised its prediction for world economic growth…
2010-07-02 Major Economies Caught in Debate Between Debt and Growth
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Concerns about a double-dip recession were back in the news this week.…
2010-06-25 G-20 Nations Wonder: How Soon Is Too Soon to Cut Spending?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This weekend, leaders and top finance officials from the world’s twenty biggest…
2010-06-18 Young Workers Lead Growing Labor Unrest in China
Factory labor built China into the world’s third largest economy, after the United States and Japan. Now something else is…
2010-06-11 Job Market an Extra Hard Test for New College Graduates
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. June means one more big test for many students finishing college —…
2010-05-28 Privacy Concerns Hit Facebook, Google
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. People are supposed to be social on a social media site. But…
2010-06-04 Oil Spill Puts Financial Pressure on BP
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. BP is one of the world’s largest energy companies. It reported a…
2010-05-21 Effort to Enforce ‘Net Neutrality’ in US Takes New Path
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Officials in Washington recently lost a ruling over their power to enforce…