2008-10-03 Credit and the Crisis of Confidence
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Wednesday night, the United States Senate passed a rescue bill for the…
2008-09-26 Wall Street, Without the Big Investment Banks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many financial companies have moved to other New York streets. But Wall…
2008-09-19 Trying to Contain the Credit Crisis
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Federal Reserve and other major central banks pumped extra money into…
2008-09-12 Too Big to Fail, the Next Step: US Seizes Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the government took control of America’s two biggest housing finance…
2008-09-05 U.S. Health Spending: Looking for a Cure
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Health care costs are a major concern of Americans. The percentage of…
2008-08-29 High Fuel Prices Drive Manufacturing Closer to Home
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In the last thirty years, American businesses have increasingly used suppliers in…
2008-08-22 What’s Up — or Down — With Commodity Prices?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Prices for many widely traded goods have fallen recently after big increases…
2008-08-15 An Unsettled Time for the Credit Card Industry
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Credit cards let people buy things now and pay for them over…
2008-08-08 No Money Down: Give-and-Take Sites and Bartering Exchanges
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Whoever said you cannot get something for nothing has not searched the…
2008-08-01 The US Housing Rescue Plan: What It Includes
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report Last week, the United States Congress approved a major housing bill. President…
2008-07-25 ‘Naked’ Short Selling Gets a Close Eye
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States recently moved to…
2008-07-18 Learning Business Skills Through Junior Achievement
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business…
2008-07-11 Data Centers Power a Big Change in Computing
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Internet is sometimes described as a cloud — a big, borderless…
2008-07-04 Bill Gates Steps Aside at Microsoft
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world’s biggest…
2008-06-27 Officials Target Mortgage Mess in U.S.
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. American lawmakers and law enforcers are busy with the housing finance market.…