2008-12-05 US Automakers Ask Congress for 34 Billion in Aid
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States is already one year into a recession. That was…
2008-11-28 Obama Chooses Economic Team for ‘Historic’ Crisis
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President-elect Barack Obama named the top members of his economic team in…
2008-11-21 Congress Delays Action on Auto Industry Loans
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Congress faced a big question this week, but the answer will have…
2008-11-14 US Treasury Changes Plans, Won’t Buy Toxic Securities
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is making changes in the seven hundred billion…
2008-11-07 Obama Faces Difficult Financial Choices
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Barack Obama defeated John McCain Tuesday in the longest and most costly…
2008-10-31 US Economy Shrinks 0.3 Percent
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Early estimates show that the United States economy shrank by three-tenths of…
2008-10-24 Financial Crisis Summit Set for November 15 in Washington
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Credit markets showed signs of some improvement this week. Interest rates for…
2008-10-17 In Time of Crisis, Candidates Present Economic Plans
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the two major presidential candidates gave new details of their…
2008-10-10 The Credit Crisis Spreads to Banks Around the World
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, economic worries turned from inflation. On Wednesday, central banks in…
2008-10-03 Credit and the Crisis of Confidence
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Wednesday night, the United States Senate passed a rescue bill for the…
2008-09-26 Wall Street, Without the Big Investment Banks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many financial companies have moved to other New York streets. But Wall…
2008-09-19 Trying to Contain the Credit Crisis
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Federal Reserve and other major central banks pumped extra money into…
2008-09-12 Too Big to Fail, the Next Step: US Seizes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the government took control of America’s two biggest housing finance…
2008-09-05 U.S. Health Spending: Looking for a Cure
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Health care costs are a major concern of Americans. The percentage of…
2008-08-29 High Fuel Prices Drive Manufacturing Closer to Home
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In the last thirty years, American businesses have increasingly used suppliers in…