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WORDS AND THEIR STORIES - Financial Expressions By Frank Beardsley Broadcast: Sunday, December 05, 2004 Now, Words and Their Stories, a VOA Special English Program about American expressions. I'm Rich

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This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. The United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York Friday Leaders from the one hundred ninety-two members of the United Nations gathered in New York this week for the new General Assembly.

VOA标准英语2008年-US Financial Crisis Expected to Affect Foreign

A United Nations survey on global investment prospects shows the U.S. financial crisis and economic downturn are making corporations more cautious about future foreign investment. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from New Delhi. Official relea

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President Bush Discusses the Economy THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. I am pleased to be back to the U.S. Chamber. I want to thank the members of this fine organization for your efforts to support the spirit of free enterprise, and to advance the intere

奥巴马每日发言On Executive Compensation (2009-2-4)

暂无音频 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION Grand Foyer, The White House Febuary 4, 2009 THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, Tim, for your hard work on this issue and on the economic recovery. The economic crisis we face is unlike any we've se

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says the global financial crisis may have shaken world confidence, but not the international community's resolve to help the United Nations continue working to fight poverty and disease. From United Nation's headqu

VOA慢速英语2009年-THIS IS AMERICA - How a Housing Bubble Bur

VOICE ONE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember. VOICE TWO: A repossessed home in Denver, Colorado, in May 2008 And I'm Fritzi Bodenheimer. This week on our program, we examine some of the causes of the financial crisis

'The Big Short' Explains the Global Financial Crisis

'The Big Short' Explains the Global Financial Crisis In 2008, two big Wall Street firms, or companies that trade money and investments, collapsed. The U.S. economy plunged into the Great Recession. That meant the economy was weak and many people lost

联合国小组呼吁关注世界经济金融安全

AS IT IS 2015-10-09 UN Group Calls for Secure Financial Base to World Economy 联合国小组呼吁关注世界经济金融安全 From VOA Learning English, this is the Economics Report. A United Nations organization is working to help developing cou

VOA标准英语2010年-Global Financial Crisis Affects Remitt

Africans in the Diaspora send less money to families at home Jackson Mvunganyi 25 January 2010 The global economic downturn is hurting Africans in the Diaspora. Its harder for them to send money home, and that leads to problems for those who depend o

VOA标准英语 Obama: No One Country Can Fix Economic Crisis

U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are calling for global unity as world leaders gather in London for an emergency economic summit. The two leaders downplayed differences on steps to reverse the current economic slid

VOA标准英语2009-More Money to Help Africa Weather Financial Cris

Africa's biggest investors and lenders are making available another $15 billion to help the continent weather the global financial crisis. President of African Development Bank Donald Kaberuka in Dakar, 12 May 2009 The $15 billion is meant to promot

英伦广角 2009-02-01 温总理正式会晤英国首相

Could these women help save us all from the financial crisis? China has transformed itself from drab Communism to the world's third biggest economy with 1.3 billion consumers hungry for the decade of fruits of capitalism. And they might be the ones w

CNN 2008-09-20

Hope you're having a great day, I'm Nicole Lapin, at the CNN Center in Atlanta, here is a look at what's happening NOW IN THE NEWS. The economic movers and shakers in the Bush Administration plan to shake up the US financial system in ways we haven'

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Today, America faces a make-or-break moment for the middle class. After the worst economic crisis of our lifetimes, some still want to return to the same policies that got us into this mess. Theyre the same policies that have stacked the deck against

新西兰英语 83 Official Cash Rate Cut

Once more the governor of the Reserve Bank, Alan Bollard, has cut the official cash rate, but this time by a large amount: 1.5%. This brings the official cash rate now to 5%, the lowest in a long time. This is the rate that banks pay to borrow overni

British Vision Issue 72, 银行借贷危机

Now the Chancellor has accused banks of lending money too freely, and has told them to take a more cautious approach. Commenting on the on-going global credit crisis, Alistair Darling told the Daily Telegraph, in crude terms they need to know who th

2 Unusual Things Affected by the Financial Crisis

Its hard to find something not impacted by our current financial crisis. Here are 12 examples of what the recession means for specific things, from Spam to sex addiction. 1. Spam It looks like meat, it tastes like meat, but its a far cheaper substitu

Europe's Financial Crisis Intensifies

Europe's financial crisis has deepened this week as worries rose about the health of another bank - the Franco-Belgian-owned Dexia. Dexia's board meets Saturday to discuss the bank's future. Dexia's woes underscore growing criticism about the region'

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Economics brief: Financial stability: Minsky's moment 经济概要：金融稳定：明斯基的时刻 The second article in our series on seminal economic ideas looks at Hyman Minsky's hypothesis that booms sow the seeds of busts. 六大经济思想之