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Indicators Show US Economic Recovery Slow, Uneven Economists say trucks haul nearly 70 percent of the freight used in the United States. The American Trucking Association says freight is a measure of the economy, because manufacturers have to move ra

新视野大学英语视听说教程 4 Unit 9-2

III. Listening In Task 1: Is GDP really so important ? Script Joan: It seems like a miracle that Chinas GDP has been growing so fast. The growth last year was over eight percent again. Vincent: Excuse me, it just slipped my mind. What does GDP stand

NPR 2010-12-18

President Obama signed the 858-billion-dollar tax-cut bill this afternoon, extending Bush-era tax rates for another two years. As NPR's Scott Horsley reports, the tax bill passed the House last night with nearly equal support from Democrats and Repub

Job Losses Become Major Issue

Jim Malone Concern over job losses in the United States has emerged as a major issue in the 2004 presidential campaign. The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Massachusetts Senator John Kerr

CNN 2011-02-05

Well, one government agency is predicting that the U.S. will have a deficit in 2011. A big deficit. In a report that came out yesterday, the Congressional Budget Office, or CBO forecast that the U.S. government will spend $1.5 trillion more than it m

VOA标准英语2009年-Asia Hopes to Spend Its Way Out of Economic Cri

With the global economic slowdown increasingly felt in Asia, the region's governments have taken steps to shield their economies from the worst. But will these measures work? Asian governments are spending like never before. Japan's government says

VOA慢速英语 2007 0406a

This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economics and weather have a lot in common. Knowing what conditions will be like weeks or months in the future is not easy. One thing that helps economists predict the future is the index of leading

VOA标准英语2009年-G20 Leaders Wrap Up Their Economic Summit

By Jim Randle Pittsburgh 26 September 2009 G20 leaders meet during the second plenary session at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh Group of 20 leaders wrapped up their summit Friday with agreements intended to prevent future economic meltdowns, and givin

VOA标准英语2009年-US Central Bank Sees Continued Economic Slide

The U.S. central bank says the U.S. economy continues to deteriorate, and the outlook for the months ahead remains grim. Wednesday's Federal Reserve report followed another decline in U.S. retail sales that helped push financial markets lower. In it

VOA慢速英语20060120a

ECONOMICS REPORT - Economic Conditions: Trying to Read the FutureBy Mario Ritter Broadcast: Friday, January 20, 2006 I'm Steve Ember with the VOA Special English Economics Report. Economics and weathe

每日一词【1190】indicator：指示，信号

今天我们要学的词是indicator。 Indicator, 指示，信号。20国集团财长在巴黎开会并达成协议。 The agreement lays out a list of indicators that can be used to monitor the progress made by member countries in reducing imbalanc

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short-term deposit 短期存款 short-term indicator of economic condition 短期经济指标 short-term interest rate 短期利率 short-term paper 短期票据 short-term rating 短期评级 shroff

尚福林:银行业风险可控

BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhua) -- Risks in China's banking industry are generally controllable and the authorities will work to prevent systemic financial risks, the head of the country's banking regulator said Saturday. China's banking sector is in good

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今天我们要学的词是indicator。 Indicator, 指示，信号。20国集团财长在巴黎开会并达成协议。 The agreement lays out a list of indicators that can be used to monitor the progress made by member countries in reducing imbalanc

VOA常速英语2008年-OECD Downgrades US Economic Outlook

By Lisa Bryant Paris 20 March 2008 The Paris-based Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) published a grim assessment Thursday of the United States economy, saying it was close to recession. However, the OECDsuggested European e

Renminbi Will Be Among Dominant World Currencies

A new report from The World Bank predicts that China's renminbi will join the U.S dollar and the euro as dominant international currencies sometime in the next 10 to 15 years. Some economists say is a major realignment in the global economic order, w

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Should we judge the progress of a country based on how happy its people feel instead of economic indicators such as per capita income? 我们是否应该用国民幸福感来代替人均收入等经济指标来衡量一个国家发展水平呢？ Thi

Russian Economic Forum Shows Signs of Tension

It is called Russias Davos - an annual summer solstice gathering where foreign company heads mix and mingle under one roof in St. Petersburg. With the British rocker Sting playing to the crowd, the Kremlin plans it as a lovefest for financial types.

Dow, S&P 500 jump to 5-year highs

NEW YORK, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- U.S. stocks closed mixed on Tuesday, with Dow Jones Industrial Average and Standard Poor's 500-stock Index climbing to five-year highs amid mixed economic data. The Dow and SP 500 climbed steadily despite mixed economic

经济学人319:消失的美好时代

NOW almost five years old, the economic crisis rumbles on. In order to assess how much economic progress it has undone, The Economist has constructed a measure of lost time for hard-hit countries. It shows that Greeces economic clock has been turned