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内容介绍：Warner Brothers, Hollywood's top seller of DVDs, decides against a competing video technology.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Competition often means waiting for people to make a choice.That was the case with VCRs, video cassette rec... >>详细内容

内容介绍：The fast-food company expects to add $1 billion in sales by offering specialty coffee drinks in all its U.S. restaurants.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.McDonald's, the fast-food company, is heating up competition with the Starbucks ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Problems in the U.S. housing market and rising energy prices bring concerns.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.World economic growth remained strong in two thousand seven. The International Monetary Fund estimated growth at five and two... >>详细内容

内容介绍：How a trip to Ghana added up for an accountant sent by the International Executive Service Corps.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Abe Mirza is an American, fifty-nine years old and retired. He was trained as an accountant. In fact, he... >>详细内容

内容介绍：How a private alliance brought together by the Bush administration plans to try to keep some people from losing their homes.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Imagine that you want to buy a house but are not sure you could meet the mont... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Government-owned investment funds are estimated to control over $2 trillion in assets. Most funds are tied to oil money.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last month, America's biggest bank, Citigroup, agreed to sell five percent of its... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Persian Gulf countries hold more than half of the world's petroleum reserves, but production has grown in other areas.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Pumping oil in BahrainWhen we think of oil, the part of the world that comes to min... >>详细内容

内容介绍：By the early 1900s, the Standard Oil Company of John D. Rockefeller came to control almost all of the American oil industry.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.With oil around one hundred dollars a barrel, this may be a good time for a s... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Parents can use small amounts to teach their children about giving, spending and saving.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Many children first learn the value of money by receiving an allowance. The purpose is to let children learn from... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Biggest U.S. bank estimates write-downs of up to $11 billion in the current quarter on mortgage-related investments.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, we told you about big losses at the investment bank Merrill Lynch. But the... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Stan O'Neal retires under pressure following the company's $2 billion loss after taking an $8 billion charge on mortgage-related investments.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Stan O'Neal This week, directors of investment bank Merrill ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Software maker ends appeals of European orders to share information with competitors. Separately, Microsoft is buying a small interest in social site Facebook, which it values at $15 billion.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.This week,... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Three Americans -- including the oldest-ever Nobel Prize winner -- will share award for creating mechanism design theory.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Many things perform effectively but not efficiently. To be efficient means to pr... >>详细内容

内容介绍：What it means, who likes it, and who doesn't.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Weak or strong. Which is better? If the question is about the American dollar, the answer depends on whom you ask.The dollar has been weakening against seve... >>详细内容

内容介绍：An oversupply has reduced prices for the fuel, even as inflationary pressures have hit maize and other products.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Right now, many people around the world are feeling the pain of "agflation." Agricultural... >>详细内容

内容介绍：A short strike ends with a plan for General Motors to start an independent trust to pay benefits. The example may guide union talks with other US automakers.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Labor relations in the American auto industr... >>详细内容

内容介绍：The Federal Reserve appears from its half-point rate cuts to be more concerned with the risk of a recession than with inflation.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.A listener from Indonesia named Efendy asks why the Federal Reserve is so... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Interest rates are set to rise on adjustable interest rate home loans in the coming months.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.A foreclosed home in Pasadena, California.In the last few years, many Americans have bought houses with ARMs: ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：Companies are structured different ways for different reasons.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Businesses are structured in different ways to meet different needs.The simplest form of business is called an individual proprietorship. T... >>详细内容

内容介绍：A newly released study finds that 79 percent of 12th-graders have at least a basic understanding.This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.How much do American high school students know about economics? A newreport shows that seventy-nine perc... >>详细内容