2008-05-09 Why Oil Continues Its Climb
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The price of oil has risen to more than one hundred twenty…
2008-05-02 Behind the Price of Rice
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Poor families in some countries spend as much as eighty percent of…
2008-04-25 NAFTA, Free Trade and the Presidential Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The debate over free trade has intensified in this election year in…
2008-04-18 The Candidates on the Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. High food and fuel prices. Housing and credit problems. Job losses. Worries…
2008-04-11 Loan Crisis Throws New Light on Investment Banks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Investment banks have long played a part in the financial system. But…
2008-04-04 The Treasury Proposes a Plan to Change the Way the Financial System is Supervised
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the Bush administration proposed major changes to the way the…
2008-03-28 Sales Down for New US Homes, but Up for Existing Ones
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing…
2008-03-21 The Fall of Bear Stearns
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the crisis in credit markets claimed Bear Stearns. The eighty-five…
2008-03-14 Boeing Protests Air Force Contract on Tankers
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Must a country buy from its own defense suppliers? This is one…
2008-03-07 US Economy: Home Foreclosures, Late Payments Rise
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. More bad news for the American housing market: The Mortgage Bankers Association…
2008-02-29 Hollywood Looks Overseas for Talent and Profit
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, something happened at the Academy Awards that had not happened…
2008-02-22 The Price of Pleasure
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Usually we think about material qualities when we think about the pleasure…
2008-02-08 Bush’s 3 Trillion Budget
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Bush sent Congress the final budget of his presidency.…
2008-02-15 Microsoft’s Play for Yahoo | Hollywood Writers Back to Work
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The competition between Microsoft and Google took a new turn on February…
2008-02-01 A ‘Rogue Trader’ Costs French Bank 7 Billion
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, France’s second largest bank, Societe Generale, announced that a single,…