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内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.One of the most important questions a worker can ask is: "Will I have enough money for retirement?" For more than thirty years, Americans have used individual retirement accounts, or IRAs,... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Many workers depend on plans offered by their employers to help pay for their retirement.There are two major kinds of retirement plans.One is defined by what is paid out, the other by what... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. General Motors lost almost eleven thousand million dollars last year.Now the cost-cutting efforts of the world's largest automaker are gaining speed.To cut costs, General Motors is cuttin... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. The main goal of the World Bank is to fight poverty.But, for almost ten years, the World Bank also has investigated financial crimes by government and bank officials.World Bank headquarte... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.This year, April seventeenth is the last day for Americans to pay federal income taxes for two thousand five. Most taxpayers have had enough income tax collected by their employers during ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Many companies provide earnings guidance.They tell their shareholders how much they expect to earn in the future.Often companies report expected earnings for each three-month period.nyseE... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Stock options are a way to profit from changes in the price of a stock without the need to buy the shares immediately.Stock options are agreements to trade shares of a stock at a set pric... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, we described stock options.These are agreements that give investors the right to buy or sell shares of stock for a set price at a time in the future. For years, companies have u... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.What is the difference between a public company and a private one? In the United States, almost all companies are private in the sense that they are not government owned.A "public company"... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.The cost to borrow money is the interest rate.For many years, the United States central bank has used its target interest rate as a tool to fight inflation. The idea behind this policy is ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Bob Doughty with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Fannie Mae, the mortgage-finance company, agreed this week to pay a fine of four hundred million dollars. The United States government will get some of that money. Most of it will go to sh... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.President Bush has named Henry Paulson Junior to replace John Snow as the secretary of the Treasury. Mister Paulson is the chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, a leading ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Mario Ritter with the VOA Special English Economics Report.The oldest of America's baby boomers are sixty years old this year. Almost one-fourth of Americans alive today were born in a population explosion between nineteen forty-six and nineteen ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Many people know that hedge funds are investments for the wealthy. But what exactly are they? A hedge fund is an investment group often organized as a limited partnership. Hedge funds are ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Stock and bond listingsStocks, bonds, land -- people invest in different things and for different reasons. But all investors share the same goal. They want to get more money out of their i... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Bill and Melinda Gates with Warren BuffettIn the past, investor Warren Buffett was known for making money, not giving it away. On June twenty-sixth, Mister Buffett changed all that when he... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.Ken Lay (File photo)Kenneth Lay, the former chairman of Enron, died Wednesday in Aspen, Colorado. A medical examiner said the cause was a heart attack. Ken Lay was sixty-four years old. In... >>详细内容

内容介绍：I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report.The European Commission ruled Wednesday that Microsoft is still using its powerful market position illegally. The top European Union official for competition policy ordered a fine of more ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Foundations are in the news a lot. They support everything from A to Z -- from the arts to zoos. They give away money in the form of grants or provide free services. Governments generally do not tax th... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.As we told you last week, the United States has about seventy thousand foundations for charitable giving. They are required to give away at least five percent of their total holdings each year.Most fou... >>详细内容