From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Speer. The head of insurance giant AIG told Congress today, he has heard the public outrage of the company's bonus payments to executives while taxpayers are bailing out the firm. NPR's Paul Brown has more. Edwa

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Homes were much cheaper, say, as recently as the 1970s. 比如在七十年代,住房价格要便宜得多。 Furthermore: the bigger the bubble, the bigger the bust. Considering how sharply home prices climbed from 2002 to 2006, one might expect re

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Dollar Is World's Most Traded Currency. But Why?By Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, October 27, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A listener in Manaus, Brazil, L

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - U.N. Says Aid, Economic Growth Fail to Cut Poverty in Poorest NationsBy Brianna Blake Broadcast: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:00:00 UTC I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Develop

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HEALTH REPORT - Increased Efforts Urged to Fight TuberculosisBy Cynthia Kirk Broadcast: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 I'm Shep O'Neal with the VOA Special English Health Report. Almost two million people

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DEVELOPMENT REPORT - Report Says Six Percent of Babies Are Born with Genetic DisordersBy Jill Moss Broadcast: Monday, February 06, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Development Report.

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WASHINGTON, June 5 (Xinhua) -- U.S. fixed mortgage rates rose for the first time in six weeks after hitting a seven-month low amid a slowdown in the housing recovery, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) edg

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This is the VOA Special English Development Report. Baby girl infected with H-I-V in India UNICEF is joining with a nonprofit group to bring H.I.V./AIDS programs to more women and children in five countries. UNICEF, the United Nations Children's Fun

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AS IT IS 2016-06-18 Central Banks in US, Japan Leave Interest Rates Unchanged 美国和日本的利率维持不变 Central banks in two of the worlds largest economies the United States and Japan -- left interest rates unchanged this week. In the Uni

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Suicide Rates Increase in US 美国自杀率上升 The study showed that the number of suicides increased sharply after 2006. Economic conditions in the U.S. began to worsen at that time. A recession began in 2008. The suicide rate increased for men

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ECONOMICS REPORT - Tools of the Trade: The Federal Reserve and the Money SupplyBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, February 17, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Ben B

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MOSCOW, Feb. 16 (Xinhua) -- Finance ministers and central bankers of the Group of 20 (G20) on Saturday pledged to strengthen financial stability and promote sustainable growth at the conclusion of a two-day meeting here. In a joint communique issued

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金融英语 A derivative is a security which derives its value fromanother underlying financial instrument, index, or otherinvestment. Derivatives are available based on theperformance of stocks, interest rates, currencyexchange rates, as

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HARI SREENIVASAN: Today's interest rate hike by the Fed marks just the second time it has raised rates since the 2008 financial crisis and the major recession that followed. So, when Fed chairwoman Janet Yellen announces a move like that, even one th

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英文中一些单词很容易混淆,甚至连native speaker都会误用。为了在口语和写作中避免这种错误的发生,小编特意为大家整理了英文中10组易混淆的词汇,大家仔细体会哦! 1. Affect (动词) / Effect

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Finance and economics: Property in Sweden Home is where the heartache is 财经:瑞士房产,心痛之处是为家 House prices in Sweden continue to soar, to regulators' despair. 瑞典房价持续飙升,监管机构感到绝望。 ASK a centr

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Theirs is the first such data set to gather all of that information for so many countries over so long a period. 他们的成果是收集这么多国家在这么长的时间内的所有这种信息的第一批这样的数据集。 As such, the author

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What explains the sudden turmoil? 何以解释这场突如其来的动荡呢? Perhaps investors had been used to good news for so long that they had become complacent. 也许,投资者已经习惯于好消息太久了,以致他们已经变得有些

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Efforts to slash national debts are at the heart of fierce debates in United States and protests in other nations. In some cases, these government debts are bigger than the entire economic output of the nation for a year. Debt problems can slow econo

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模仿句子:Everybody's kind of joined the bandwagon blaming China but in reality we're not really sure whether it really is down to China. It could be actually the byproduct of the Fed's plan to raise rates in September which has had consequences

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