2008-06-20 Throwing Light on High Oil Prices and ‘Dark Markets’
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. First a crisis, then calls to investigate. This is happening now with…
2008-06-13 Talking Up the Dollar
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. But on Tuesday, President Bush said in Slovenia that the “relative value…
2008-06-06 Automakers, Airlines Hit by Sky-High Fuel Prices
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. There was more evidence this week of the effects of high oil…
2008-05-30 Peter Drucker, 1909-2005: The Mind of a Management Thinker
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. We talked last week about Joseph Juran, an influential American expert in…
2008-05-23 Joseph Juran, 1904-2008: A Life of Quality Control
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently the business world lost a leader in quality control. Joseph Juran…
2008-05-16 For Fans of Anarchy, Grand Theft Auto IV Is a Big Smash
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. (SOUND) A lot of marketers would kill for a product like Grand…
2008-05-09 Why Oil Continues Its Climb
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The price of oil has risen to more than one hundred twenty…
2008-05-02 Behind the Price of Rice
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Poor families in some countries spend as much as eighty percent of…
2008-04-25 NAFTA, Free Trade and the Presidential Campaign
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The debate over free trade has intensified in this election year in…
2008-04-11 Loan Crisis Throws New Light on Investment Banks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Investment banks have long played a part in the financial system. But…
2008-04-18 The Candidates on the Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. High food and fuel prices. Housing and credit problems. Job losses. Worries…
2008-04-04 The Treasury Proposes a Plan to Change the Way the Financial System is Supervised
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the Bush administration proposed major changes to the way the…
2008-03-28 Sales Down for New US Homes, but Up for Existing Ones
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the National Association of Realtors reported that sales of existing…
2008-03-21 The Fall of Bear Stearns
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, the crisis in credit markets claimed Bear Stearns. The eighty-five…
2008-03-14 Boeing Protests Air Force Contract on Tankers
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Must a country buy from its own defense suppliers? This is one…