Category: Economics Report (经济报道)

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economists rarely shape policy to the extent that Milton Friedman did. He died on November sixteenth in San Francisco, California, at the…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders ended without announcement of major policy changes among APEC members. However, the leaders did say…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from experience at…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. People invest money in the hope their wealth will grow over time. People with a lot of money may have financial advisers…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Listener Adamu Onakpa at Hillside High School in Cross River State, Nigeria, has a question. How can the United States be both…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener in Manaus, Brazil, Luiz Roberto Alves da Costa, has a question about money. He asks why the American dollar is…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. International trade does not just happen. It is the result of developing relationships and processes to ease the flow of goods and…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Edmund Phelps has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Mister Phelps is a professor of economics at Columbia University in…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, the United States Federal Reserve chose to keep its target interest rate unchanged at five-point-two-five percent. The Federal Open Market…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Congress has voted to ban most financial exchanges that involve gambling on the Internet by people in the United States. The measure…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Computer-maker Hewlett-Packard announced this week that the chairwoman of its board of directors will resign in January. How Patricia Dunn came to…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Batteries are rarely a worry except when the devices they supply power to go dead. But in June the battery in a…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In August, President Bush signed a bill making major changes to retirement plans operated by companies. These pension plans provide defined payments…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Now, our third and final report on foundations, what they are and what they do. In the United States, education gets the…

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The oil company British Petroleum has shut down a pipeline connecting the Prudhoe Bay oil fields in Alaska to the Trans-Alaska pipeline.…