08 April 2010 An appeals court ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission lacked the power to tell cable provider Comcast to treat all content equally in its Internet service This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Two rulings in...

25 March 2010 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama has signed legislation to reform the health care system in the United States. The main goal is to insure about thirty-two million additional people. That is about ninety-...

By Mario Ritter 2010-3-18 Photo: AP A mother in Aurora, Colorado, uses the Internet with her children This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. A newly released proposal calls for almost everyone in the United States to have high-speed Intern...

11 March 2010 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Laws in the United States and other countries treat a corporation like a person. We talked last week about how this idea developed a long time ago. In the United States, the Constitution...

04 March 2010 A history of why US companies have the same legal rights as people, plus limited liability. The Supreme Court continues to define the rights of corporations This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Recently the United States Su...

By VOA 2010-2-18 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession. The new bill promised jobs -- including many in the nuclear...

By Mario Ritter 2010-2-4 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. Toyota became the world's largest automaker in two thousand eight. But after years of building loyalty, the Japanese company may have put its quality brand name at risk, at le...

By VOA 2010-1-21 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. President Obama is proposing rules to limit the size of banks and the risks they can take. He wants to prevent banks from using government-insured deposits to make risky investments....

By Mario Ritter 2010-1-14 This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. China says it has passed Germany and become the world's top exporter. Exports totaled more than one trillion dollars last year. That was down from two thousand eight, but abo...

3-D TV, digital tablets and Google's new phone could help in recovering from a bad year. Thousands of new products are being presented at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Transcript of radio broadcast: 07 January 2010 This is the VOA Speci...