2007-01-19 Big and Bigger: Mergers and Acquisitions Stay Strong Into ’07
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Companies combined or bought other businesses at record levels last year. Almost…
2007-01-12 Backdated Stock Options: How Deal for Apple Chief Turned Sour
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Apple Computer had a big week. Steve Jobs, the chief executive officer,…
2007-01-05 First Trans-Atlantic Stock Market Aims for Early ’07 Launch
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The NYSE Group and Euronext hope to create the world’s largest financial…
2006-12-29 The Housing Market Slows, Charity Gains and Economics Loses Two Great Thinkers
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, we look back at a few of the year’s biggest…
2006-12-22 Click, Click, Click. What’s That? Another Online Sale
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The winter gift-giving season is responsible for twenty percent of all retail…
2006-12-15 How a Famed Management Thinker Made His Mark
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Peter Drucker, who died a year ago, was an expert on the…
2006-12-08 American Competitiveness: Too Many Rules?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, a committee released proposals to make America’s publicly traded companies…
2006-12-01 Milton Friedman Saw Free Markets as a Tool for ‘Human Freedom’
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economists rarely shape policy to the extent that Milton Friedman did. He…
2006-11-24 APEC Meeting Pushes for Continued Trade Negotiations
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The meeting of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation leaders ended without announcement of major…
2006-11-17 Allowances: A Lesson in Personal Finance for Kids
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance.…
2006-11-10 Americans Invest for the Future in Mutual Funds
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. People invest money in the hope their wealth will grow over time.…
2006-11-03 For a Country, a Lot of Debt Is Not Always a Bad Thing
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Listener Adamu Onakpa at Hillside High School in Cross River State, Nigeria,…
2006-10-27 Dollar Is World’s Most Traded Currency. But Why?
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener in Manaus, Brazil, Luiz Roberto Alves da Costa, has a…
2006-10-20 Making International Trade Happen
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. International trade does not just happen. It is the result of developing…
2006-10-13 Edmund Phelps Wins Nobel Prize for Economics
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Edmund Phelps has been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize for Economics. Mister…