2008-08-22 What’s Up — or Down — With Commodity Prices?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Prices for many widely traded goods have fallen recently after big increases…
2008-08-15 An Unsettled Time for the Credit Card Industry
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Credit cards let people buy things now and pay for them over…
2008-08-08 No Money Down: Give-and-Take Sites and Bartering Exchanges
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Whoever said you cannot get something for nothing has not searched the…
2008-08-01 The US Housing Rescue Plan: What It Includes
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report Last week, the United States Congress approved a major housing bill. President…
2008-07-25 ‘Naked’ Short Selling Gets a Close Eye
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States recently moved to…
2008-07-18 Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business…
2008-07-11 Data Centers Power a Big Change in Computing
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Internet is sometimes described as a cloud — a big, borderless…
2008-07-04 Bill Gates Steps Aside at Microsoft
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world’s biggest…
2008-06-27 Officials Target Mortgage Mess in U.S.
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. American lawmakers and law enforcers are busy with the housing finance market.…
2008-06-20 Throwing Light on High Oil Prices and ‘Dark Markets’
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. First a crisis, then calls to investigate. This is happening now with…
2008-06-13 Talking Up the Dollar
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. But on Tuesday, President Bush said in Slovenia that the “relative value…
2008-06-06 Automakers, Airlines Hit by Sky-High Fuel Prices
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. There was more evidence this week of the effects of high oil…
2008-05-30 Peter Drucker, 1909-2005: The Mind of a Management Thinker
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. We talked last week about Joseph Juran, an influential American expert in…
2008-05-23 Joseph Juran, 1904-2008: A Life of Quality Control
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently the business world lost a leader in quality control. Joseph Juran…
2008-05-16 For Fans of Anarchy, Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big Smash
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. (SOUND) A lot of marketers would kill for a product like Grand…