2005-11-11 Using the ‘Wisdom of Crowds’ to Tell the Future
I’m Doug Johnson with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Intrade is a trading exchange for politics, current events and…
2005-11-04 Intrade: a Market That Trades on Future Events
I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Intrade is a kind of exchange where people trade, not…
2005-10-28 Bush Nominates Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve Chairman
I’m Faith Lapidus with the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush this week nominated economist Ben Bernanke to become…
2005-10-21 U.S. Supermarkets Face Growing Competition
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Supermarkets are big stores that provide a wide choice of…
2005-10-14 Work on ‘Game Theory’ Wins Nobel Prize for Two Economists
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann will share the Nobel Prize…
2005-10-07 Allowance Helps Teach Children Early About Money
I’m Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many children first learn the value of money by receiving…
2005-09-30 Farm Workers Union Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Grape Strike
I’m Jim Tedder with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United Farm Workers of America union recently observed the…
2005-09-23 High Fuel Prices Fail to Spread Inflation, at Least Not Yet
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. While oil prices have climbed sharply, other costs have not…
2005-09-16 Nasdaq: An Electronic Marketplace
I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener in China asks about the history of the…
2005-09-09 Katrina: The Human Cost Is Not the Only Number Expected to Be High
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Hurricane Katrina caused damage on a level never before seen…
2005-09-02 What’s in a Name: Standard and Poor’s
I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently, a listener from China asked why the financial company…
2005-08-26 Development Banks: Lenders with Interest in Progress
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Development banks are international lending groups. They lend money to…
2005-08-19 Many Americans Are Watching Their Credit Reports
I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report. More and more Americans are reading their own credit report.…
2005-08-12 Bush Signs Major Energy and Transportation Bills
I’m Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Bush has signed into law the first energy policy…
2005-08-05 Click-Click: E-Commerce Turns Ten
I’m Barbara Klein with the VOA Special English Economics Report. On July sixteenth, nineteen ninety-five, a new book store opened…