2007-03-16 Worry Over Subprime Home Loans
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Financial markets had a rough week again as investors grew more concerned about the United States housing market. Much of the concern…
2007-03-09 Meeting the Demand for Ethanol
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. What happens when a food crop becomes a fuel crop? This is a question many people are trying to answer as demand…
2007-03-02 Big in Texas: Energy Company Agrees to a Record Buyout
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Big business deals do not often come with a promise to cut greenhouse gases. But that was part of a deal this…
2007-02-23 Maker of Cervical Cancer Vaccine Stops Pushing to Require It for Girls
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the drug company Merck announced that it would end a lobbying campaign for Gardasil, its new vaccine for girls and…
2007-02-16 US Presses Japan on Farm Imports and India on World Trade Talks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States has put new pressure on Japan to import more farm goods from American companies. The American ambassador to Japan…
2007-02-09 Congress Gets Bush’s ’08 Budget Plan
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Bush sent Congress his spending plan for two thousand eight. His budget proposes almost three trillion dollars in government…
2007-02-02 Computers: A New Windows, and a New Way to Make Processors
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, with dancers and other events, Microsoft launched the general release of its new operating system for personal computers. Windows Vista…
2007-01-26 Moving Beyond Talk on Climate Change
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the top issues this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, was climate change. But the business and…
2007-01-19 Big and Bigger: Mergers and Acquisitions Stay Strong Into ’07
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies combined or bought other businesses at record levels last year. Almost four trillion dollars in deals worldwide represented an increase of…
2007-01-12 Backdated Stock Options: How Deal for Apple Chief Turned Sour
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Apple Computer had a big week. Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer, announced the company would now just be called Apple. And,…
2007-01-05 First Trans-Atlantic Stock Market Aims for Early ’07 Launch
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The NYSE Group and Euronext hope to create the world’s largest financial exchange group by the end of March. Their shareholders voted…
2006-12-29 The Housing Market Slows, Charity Gains and Economics Loses Two Great Thinkers
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, we look back at a few of the year’s biggest economic stories. In recent years, home building and buying have…
2006-12-22 Click, Click, Click. What’s That? Another Online Sale
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The winter gift-giving season is responsible for twenty percent of all retail spending at American businesses. But how and when people buy…
2006-12-15 How a Famed Management Thinker Made His Mark
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Peter Drucker, who died a year ago, was an expert on the ways of modern organizations. He was someone who truly earned…
2006-12-08 American Competitiveness: Too Many Rules?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, a committee released proposals to make America’s publicly traded companies more competitive. The Committee on Capital Markets Regulation says costly…