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内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.This week, the government took control of America's two biggest housing finance companies. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are under conservatorship. This process of supervision will continue until the new ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Health care costs are a major concern of Americans. The percentage of people covered by private health insurance dropped last year. Yet more people had insurance than the year before.A nurse helps a pa... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Cargo containers are loaded onto a ship at the Port of MiamiIn the last thirty years, American businesses have increasingly used suppliers in China and all over the world. This helped fuel a current ac... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Prices for many widely traded goods have fallen recently after big increases earlier in the year.Oil, the world's most widely traded commodity by value, led the way. Oil prices fell in part because of... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Credit cards let people buy things now and pay for them over months or even years. But some people get deep into debt. And critics say some banks have terms and charges that can make it harder for peo... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Whoever said you cannot get something for nothing has not searched the Internet lately. An increasing number of Web sites offer users a chance to give things away and get things for free. The goal is t... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics ReportLast week, the United States Congress approved a major housing bill. President George Bush signed it into law on Wednesday.The plan could help an estimated four hundred thousand homeowners late in their... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Securities and Exchange Commission in the United States recently moved to protect nineteen major financial stocks. The agency gave an emergency order to restrict what is known as "naked" short sel... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Junior Achievement is an international movement to educate young people about business and economics. The purpose is to help them prepare to succeed in a world economy. The organization is the largest ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. The Internet is sometimes described as a cloud -- a big, borderless area of computing power. But this power has to come from somewhere.An employee checks a server at the 1&1 Internet company in Ka... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, Bill Gates retired from full-time work at the world's biggest computer software company, Microsoft. He will remain chairman of the company he established with Paul Allen in nineteen seventy-... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.This week, the crisis in credit markets claimed Bear Stearns. The eighty-five year old investment bank in New York agreed on Sunday to sell itself to J.P. Morgan Chase. The price: just two dollars a sh... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Must a country buy from its own defense suppliers? This is one of the questions in Washington in a dispute over a deal worth at least thirty-five billion dollars. The contract will supply the Air Force... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.More bad news for the American housing market:The Mortgage Bankers Association says housing repossessions are at their highest rates ever, led by California and Florida. And loan payments at least thir... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.This year, something happened at the Academy Awards that had not happened since nineteen sixty-four. All the winners for best acting were from outside the United States.From left, Daniel Day-Lewis, Til... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Usually we think about material qualities when we think about the pleasure we will get from a product. When something costs a lot, we might think about all the fine work that went into it. But can pric... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.The competition between Microsoft and Google took a new turn on February first. Microsoft made a public offer to buy the Internet company Yahoo. Microsoft says the combined companies would be in a bett... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.President Bush holds a laptop computer showing the electronic version of his 2009 budgetThis week, President Bush sent Congress the final budget of his presidency. The spending plan for two thousand ni... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last Friday, President Bush called for an economic growth package -- a plan to give a quick shot of energy to the slowing American economy. Now, the administration has an agreement with Democratic and ... >>详细内容

内容介绍：This is the VOA Special English Economics Report.Last week, France's second largest bank, Societe Generale, announced that a single, middle-level trader had caused the bank to lose over seven billion dollars. It was the largest trading loss by an ind... >>详细内容