2010-10-08 China-Japan Dispute Shines Light on Rare Earth Metals
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Few people had ever heard of the natural elements known as rare…
2010-10-01 With Bedbugs, Some People See Pests, Others See Profits
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. They are not even five millimeters long and cannot fly or jump.…
2010-09-24 15 Months Out of Recession, but Not Feeling Like It
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are still slow to hire and unemployment remains near ten percent.…
2010-09-17 Basel Plan Aims to Force Banks to Increase Capital
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The financial crisis of two thousand eight brought attention to a big…
2010-09-10 Obama Urges Steps to Strengthen Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Obama proposed new measures to lift the economy. The…
2010-09-03 A Quick Lesson in Ways Businesses Are Organized
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs. The simplest…
2010-08-27 GM to Test Investors’ Hunger for Risk With Stock Offering
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. America’s biggest carmaker accepted fifty billion dollars in federal aid from the…
2010-08-20 Verizon and Google Propose Rules of the Road for the Internet
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, Verizon and Google proposed a plan they say could keep…
2010-08-13 The Rise and Fall of Mark Hurd as H-P Chief
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Mark Hurd got credit for building Hewlett-Packard into the world’s largest technology…
2010-08-06 UAE, Other Nations Target BlackBerry for Access to User Information
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. BlackBerry service is facing limits or bans in some countries over the…
2010-07-30 An Air Show for Showing Off; West Bank’s Speed Sisters
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. One of the largest air shows in the United States is also…
2010-07-23 Financial Reform Law Aims to Change Some of the Ways of Wall Street
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. On Wednesday, President Obama signed into law the Wall Street Reform and…
2010-07-16 Inventors Given Hope on Business Method Patents
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently, the United States Supreme Court decided a case on the property…
2010-07-09 Obama Looks for Hope in Exports to Create Jobs
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The International Monetary Fund has raised its prediction for world economic growth…
2010-07-02 Major Economies Caught in Debate Between Debt and Growth
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Concerns about a double-dip recession were back in the news this week.…