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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…