2004-04-09 OPEC and Oil Prices
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries…
2004-04-02 Fortune 500 List
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. For fifty years, the business magazine Fortune has published…
2004-03-26 EU Fines Microsoft for Anti-Competitive Actions
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The European Union’s Commission on Competition ruled Wednesday that…
2004-03-19 Current Account Deficit
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States recently reported a record deficit in…
2004-03-12 Jury Finds Martha Stewart Guilty; Michael Eisner Faces Investors’ Judgment
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last Friday, a jury in New York found that…
2004-03-05 Outsourcing of Jobs
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies often give work to an outside business that…
2004-02-27 Wal-Mart
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Discount stores sell goods at low prices. They succeed…
2004-02-20 Comcast Tries to Buy Disney
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Takeovers are a common part of business. One company…
2004-02-13 Business Organizations, Part 2
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, we discussed ways that many small businesses…
2004-02-06 Business Organizations, Part 1
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are structured to meet different needs. One basic…
2004-01-30 Enron Officials in Court
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The large American energy services company, Enron, failed two…
2004-01-23 Parmalat’s Problems
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. In December, the Italian food company Parmalat admitted that…
2004-01-16 IMF Report on American Financial Policy
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. A new report warns that the rising United States…
2004-01-09 Franchises
This is Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Success does not come easily to a small business.…
2004-01-02 The Falling Value of the Dollar
This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The falling value of the dollar has become a…