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ECONOMICS REPORT - For a Country, a Lot of Debt Is Not Always a Bad ThingBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, November 03, 2006 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Listener Adamu Onakpa at

NPR 2010-11-18

The man billed as the first Guantanamo Bay terror suspect to face a civilian trial, Ahmed Ghailani, has been found not guilty of terrorism charges today in a federal trial in New York. Thirty-six-year-old Ghailani, a native of Tanzania, was accused o

NPR 2009-08-13

The interest rate setting arm of the Federal Reserve has wrapped up its two-day meeting in Washington, taking no action on a key overnight bank lending rate it controls. In its end of meeting statement, the members of the Fed's Open Market Committee

AP 2011-08-06

1. President Barack Obama has signed the emergency legislation to raise the nation's borrowing limit. Obama says lawmakers still need to find a balanced approach to reducing the deficit that includes adjustments to Medicare and reforming the tax code

VOA标准英语2010-Americans Rush to Pay Federal Income Tax

April 15 deadline looms Adam Phillips | New York 14 April 2010 Americans fill out forms at an Internal Revenue Service office in 1920, seven years after the personal income tax was introduced. Related Links NYU Stern School of Business Professor Rich

美国国家公共电台 NPR Despite Strong Economy, Federal Deficit Soars

NOEL KING, HOST: All right. This morning, the Labor Department reported another month of strong job growth. Employers added 157,000 jobs in July, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 3.9 percent. And of course, we had news last week that the U.S.

经济学人108:预算趣录 国会无力控制开支

Lexington 莱克星顿 Fun on a budget 预算趣录 Congress is incapable of restraining spending. It should let the president try 国会无力控制开支，也许该放手让总统一试 AT THE end of Barack Obama's budget, which was published on F

US Senators Spar Over Key Tax Cut

The White House and congressional Democrats continue to press for a federal-tax-cut extension that would benefit nearly all wage and salary earners, but especially the middle class. Paying for the extension remains a sticking point on Capitol Hill, w

Do Nothing' Option for US Deficit Reduction Explored

Hopes were dashed this week for bold congressional action to slow the growth of Americas $15 trillion national debt. A special bipartisan committee failed to agree on ways to trim the deficit by $1.2 trillion. But if Congress has shown itself incapab

Efforts Intensify to Avert US Debt Crisis

One day after President Barack Obama urged the U.S. Congress to intensify efforts to avert a debt crisis, the Senate appears to be doing just that. A recess has been canceled, and the president has been invited to Capitol Hill for direct talks with l

Signs of Compromise to Reduce US Deficit

With a deadline looming to cut Americas massive federal deficit, lawmakers of both parties appear to be softening rigid ideological stances in hopes of striking a bipartisan accord that would put the United States on a sounder fiscal path. Economists

US Deficit Super Committee Prepares to Begin Work

As President Barack Obama prepares to unveil proposals to spur U.S. economic growth and job creation, a bipartisan committee of lawmakers tasked with slashing the federal deficit prepares to convene for the first time. The Joint Select Committee on D

美国参议院批准两党预算协议

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Roadblocks to US Budget Deal Persist

The Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Boehner, says he stands ready to cut a budget deal with President Barack Obama - so long as no taxes are raised, leaving deep spending cuts as the sole vehicle to trim Americas massive $1.5-trill

U.S. federal gov't budget deficit tops 260 million dollars in December

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government ran a budget deficit of 260 million U.S. dollars in December, the Treasury Department figures revealed Friday. The federal government raked in a revenue of 269.5 billion dollars in December,

Bill to Raise US Debt Ceiling Advances

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill tying an increase in the federal borrowing limit to deep spending cuts, limits on future spending, and a proposed constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. The Republican-sponsored measu

Obama Proposes $3.8 Trillion Budget

President Barack Obama says the 2013 fiscal year budget he sent to Congress on Monday will reduce deficit spending in a balanced way by $4 trillion over the next decade and require wealthy Americans to contribute more, while preserving investments to

Obama signs border security bill

WASHINGTON, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday signed a bill allocating 600 million dollars to help enhance border security in the southwestern states bordering Mexico. Obama signed the bill in the Oval Office in the presence o

U.S. federal budget deficit swells amid fiscal uncertainties

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. federal government registered a budget deficit of about 69.6 billion U.S. dollars in July, bringing the total budget gap for the first 10 months of this fiscal year near the 1-trillion-dollar mark. The aggrega

US Congress Decides 2011 Federal Budget

The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a spending bill to fund the federal government through September. The last-minute agreement was reached nearly a week ago after intense negotiations between the White House and Congress, slashing $38.5 bil