Greek Protests Intensify
音频下载 Protesters shout slogans during demonstration in Athens, Oct. 5, 2011 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Violent protests in Greece have added to tensions over the debt crisis...
View ArticleTwo American Professors Win Nobel for Studies on Effects of Economic Policy
音频下载 Christopher Sims, 68, a professor at Princeton University, in New Jersey won the Nobel economics prize on Monday along with colleague Thomas Sargent This is the VOA Special English Economics...
View ArticlePresident Obama Makes His Case for Jobs Plan
音频下载 President Obama signs the Korea Free Trade Agreement at the White House, Friday. Behind him, from left, are Andrew Liveris, chief of Dow Chemical, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, Jim...
View ArticleRetirement Savings Rule 2: Plan for Your Future Goals and Needs
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Last week, we discussed limiting investment risk in retirement planning. So what are financial planners advising people to invest in? Stocks and...
View ArticleItaly Considers Budget Cuts, Rising Borrowing Costs
音频下载 Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, center, attends a meeting of parliament Tuesday. Mister Berlusconi's side won the vote, but he lost his majority. This is the VOA Special English Economics...
View ArticleMicrosavings Could Mean Big Gains for the World’s Poor
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. When it comes to savings, no amount is too small. Microsaving is a growing part of the international movement of microfinance. The aim is to bring...
View ArticleUS Congressional Committee Fails to Identify Budget Cuts
音频下载 Members of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction hold a public hearing last month. This week, the committee said it could reach no agreement. This is the VOA Special English Economics...
View ArticleEU Officials Urge Tighter Fiscal Rules for Euro Countries
音频下载 Italy's Prime Minister, Mario Monti,left, talks with President of the European Central Bank Mario Draghi, before a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels. This is the VOA Special English...
View ArticleOlympus’ Troubles Echo Peter Drucker’s Management Concerns
音频下载 Former Olympus Chief Executive Michael Woodford arrives at a news conference in Tokyo Friday, November 25, 2011 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. In business, leadership is never...
View ArticleBusiness English Speakers Can Still Be Divided by a Common Language
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Business is the most popular subject for international students in the United States. At last count, twenty-one percent of foreign students at...
View ArticleReligion Gets Largest Share of Charity in US
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Americans gave about two hundred ninety billion dollars to charity last year. That was ten billion dollars more than the amount of charitable...
View ArticlePublic Debt, Protests Made Economic News in 2011
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, we look back on a few of the big economic stories of twenty eleven. The debt crisis in that started last year in Greece and Ireland...
View ArticlePresident Appoints Consumer Agency Chief
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. This week, President Obama appointed Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The new government agency says it...
View Article'Passive' Homes Save Energy, Money
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Heating and cooling equipment are the biggest users of energy in American homes. And homes are responsible for about one fourth of the nations...
View ArticleWebsites Cut Service to Protest US Antipiracy Bills
音频下载 Google put a black bar over its logo to protest the legislation This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Some popular websites have protested two proposed United States laws aimed at...
View ArticleFacebook and Its Big Stock Offering
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Investors soon will be able to own shares of Facebook stock. The worlds biggest social media network presented documents to the Securities and...
View ArticleNext for India: Chai Points and Coffee Houses
音频下载 A coffee shop in Bangalore, India This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. India is traditionally a tea-drinking country. But, it is now gaining a new taste for coffee. This has led...
View ArticleEuropean Ministers Agree to Loan Greece Another $172 Billion
音频下载 Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, right, and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos after a meeting of euro-area finance ministers in Brussels This is the VOA Special English Economics Report....
View ArticleApple in Legal Battle Over iPad Name in China
音频下载 A lawyer for Proview Technology, Ma Dongxiao, talks to reporters speaks outside a courthouse in Shanghai after a legal hearing in February about the iPad trademark. This is the VOA Special English...
View ArticleEnergy As an Issue in America’s Presidential Campaign
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Energy has become an important issue in the American presidential campaign. And gasoline prices, costs that affect almost all Americans, have...
View ArticleLimits on Rare Earth Exports Get China in Trade Dispute
音频下载 Rare earth oxides from top center clockwise: praseodymium, cerium, lanthanum, neodymium, samarium, and gadoliniun This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States, European...
View ArticleMicrocredit Is Expanding to New Products for the Poor
音频下载 Muhammad Yunus has his picture taken with students at a technical school in Port-au-Prince, Haiti last year. The school received a loan from a group headed by Mr. Yunus to help build social...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court to Decide if the Government Can Require Health Coverage
音频下载 A demonstrator outside the Supreme Court in Washington this week This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The highest court in the United States is considering the constitutionality of...
View ArticleHow Gold Became the Gold Standard for Trade
音频下载 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The best example of something is often called the gold standard. It sets the standard against which other things are measured. In economics, the...
View ArticleUS Brings Case Against Apple and Five Book Publishers Over Electronic Books
音频下载 An Amazon Kindle e-Book This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The United States says technology company Apple and book publishers illegally fixed prices of electronic books, or...
View ArticleObama Presses Congress on Student Loan Interest
音频下载 President Barack Obama spoke about student loans Tuesday at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Student loans and the interest millions...
View ArticleGreece Struggles to Form Government, Unsure about Reform
音频下载 Greece's Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos speaks to reporters after his meeting with Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis at the Greek Parliament in Athens Thursday This is the VOA Special...
View ArticleFacebook Stock Goes on Sale
音频下载 A screen at NASDAQ in New York City lists Facebook on its first day of public trading. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Facebook is the worlds biggest social network. It has over...
View ArticleSpaceX Is Doing Business in Space
音频下载 The huge engines of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket T his is the VOA Special English ECONOMICS REPORT. Space Explorations Technologies, or SpaceX, may be a company to watch in the coming years. This...
View ArticleMeeting Highlights Economic 'Dynamism' of Southeast Asia
音频下载 Burma's Aung San Suu Kyi, left, shakes hands with Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra in this picture from the Thai government. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The...
View ArticleA Comic Book About Business Finance
音频下载 A picture from the Financial Intelligence comic book T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. You probably have heard of comic book heroes like Superman, Batman and Spiderman. But what...
View ArticlePressure in Europe Builds for Banking Reform
音频下载 United States Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Pressure for financial reform is...
View ArticleRio+20 Brings Attention to Sustainable Development
音频下载 Presidents and other officials stand for a group picture at the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro, Brazi. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report....
View ArticleReady to Save Like There's No Tomorrow?
音频下载 Pennies shine at the U.S. Mint in Denver, Colorado T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Are you a saver or a spender? A penny saved is a penny earned. This old saying calls attention...
View ArticleSaving Money for College
音频下载 Friends and family greet students in the graduating class of 2012 at Princeton University following commencement ceremonies in Princeton, New Jersey, on June 5. More than 1,200 undergraduates were...
View ArticleCriminals, Terrorists Often Have Ties to Counterfeit Goods
音频下载 A file photo of counterfeit designer products seized in a raid by federal officials. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Counterfeit designer clothing, medicines and other products...
View ArticleA Former American Treasury Secretary Talks About US-China Economic Ties
音频下载 In this file photo, hundreds of shipping containers in Shanghai filled with products wait to be exported to the United States and other countries. T his is the VOA Special English Economics...
View ArticleConnecting Employers with Jobs Seekers in Today’s Economy
音频下载 A job recruitment event near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in July. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. About three hundred fifty thousand newly unemployed people signed up for financial...
View ArticleA New China-Taiwan Agreement Protects Investors
音频下载 Chen Yunlin, left, shakes hands with Chiang Pin-kung, after signing investment protection pact, Taipei, Taiwan, August 9, 2012. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China and Taiwan...
View ArticleBritish Banks Pays $340 Million Fine for Iran Dealings
音频下载 Standard Chartered bank's headquarters in London. That bank's offices in New York have been linked to thousands of illegal financial dealings with Iran. T his is the VOA Special English Economics...
View ArticleBurma Places Hopes for Development in Foreign Investment
音频下载 Burmese worshipers gather at a Buddhist religious center in Yangon. T his is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Burma is in a good position to make big gains in Asias fast-growing markets....
View ArticleUS Postal Service Wants Congress to Make Changes to Its Business Model
音频下载 Ohio representative Dennis Kucinich and activists from the Postal Workers Union demonstrate to urge Congress to take action to help the United States Postal Service in June. This is the VOA...
View ArticleUneven Signs of Growth in the Transport Industry
音频下载 A file photo of traffic near Chicago, Illinois. Economists say trucks carry nearly 70 percent of American freight. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A look at some industries in...
View ArticleEthic Violence in Kenya Raises Concerns Among Investors
音频下载 Kenya This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A recent study shows that investors are concerned about conditions in Kenya. The nation is preparing for general elections in March twenty...
View ArticleVietnam Opens its Securities Companies to Foreign Investors
音频下载 Vietnam's economy has slowed in recent months. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Vietnam is planning to open its markets to more foreign-owned securities companies. The plan is...
View ArticleThe IMF Details Concerns About Zimbabwe's Debt
音频下载 Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti addresses a news conference in Harare, Zimbabwe. (File) This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The International Monetary Fund, or IMF, says...
View ArticleFirst Presidential Debate Centers on Economic Concerns
音频下载 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama shake hands after the first presidential debate at the University of Denver, in Colorado, Oct. 3, 2012.p This is the VOA...
View ArticleConflict Presses Syrian Economy
音频下载 Damascus has been somewhat spared as the Syrian economy slows. This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Eighteen months of conflict in Syria have hurt the countrys economy. But in the...
View ArticleHuawei and ZTE Deny Claims That They Present a Security Threat to the United...
音频下载 Bill Plummer, Huawei's vice president for external affairs in the US speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington, October 8, 2012 From VOA Learning English, this is the TECHNOLOGY REPORT in Special...
View ArticleNobel Prize in Economics Recognizes 'Market Designers'
音频下载 Pictures of U.S. economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley, who won the 2012 Nobel prize for economics, are seen projected at the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, October 15,...
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