2008-03-07 US Economy: Home Foreclosures, Late Payments Rise
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. More bad news for the American housing market: The Mortgage Bankers Association…
2008-02-29 Hollywood Looks Overseas for Talent and Profit
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This year, something happened at the Academy Awards that had not happened…
2008-02-22 The Price of Pleasure
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Usually we think about material qualities when we think about the pleasure…
2008-02-08 Bush’s 3 Trillion Budget
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Bush sent Congress the final budget of his presidency.…
2008-02-15 Microsoft’s Play for Yahoo | Hollywood Writers Back to Work
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The competition between Microsoft and Google took a new turn on February…
2008-02-01 A ‘Rogue Trader’ Costs French Bank 7 Billion
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, France’s second largest bank, Societe Generale, announced that a single,…
2008-01-25 Deal Reached in Washington to Aid Economy
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last Friday, President Bush called for an economic growth package — a…
2008-01-18 For High Definition TVs, Blu-ray Gets a Big Supporter
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Competition often means waiting for people to make a choice. That was…
2008-01-11 McDonald’s Targets Starbucks
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. McDonald’s, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks Coffee…
2008-01-04 World Economic Growth Expected to Slow in 08
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. World economic growth remained strong in two thousand seven. The International Monetary…
2007-12-21 Volunteer Experts Help Businesses in Developing Economies
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Abe Mirza is an American, fifty-nine years old and retired. He was…
2007-12-14 Helping Subprime Borrowers: Too Little? Too Much?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Imagine that you want to buy a house but are not sure…
2007-12-13 Life on the Tenure Track: A Historian’s History
This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Now, we continue our discussion from last week about the pay for…
2007-12-07 Sovereign Wealth Funds: When Governments Become Players
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last month, America’s biggest bank, Citigroup, agreed to sell five percent of…