By Scott Stearns White House 31 August 2007 President Bush is moving to help keep thousands of American homeowners from defaulting on their home loans in a growing crisis that has affected worldwide financial markets. VOA White House Correspondent Sc

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(139) / 评论(0) 分类 2007年VOA标准英语(八月)

Education Report - College Students Get Into Microfinance Lending This is the VOA Special English Education Report. Imagine that you have lost your job.You could start a sewing business at home if you had a better sewing machine and a little money to

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英国学生通过卖身和赌博来偿还高利息贷款 University students in the U.K. are having such a hard time making ends meet that they are resorting to desperate measures. Many have turned to gambling, taking out high-interest loans and eve

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A: Hi there. Welcome to Lincoln Corporate Services. How can we help? 您好。欢迎光临Lincoln银行公司业务部。如何为您效劳? B: Hi. I was wondering what kind of fixed asset loans you have? Do you have Fixed Asset Loans? 你好。我想

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THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. For years, America's automakers have faced serious challenges -- burdensome costs, a shrinking share of the market, and declining profits. In recent months, the global financial crisis has made these challenges even more

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By Peter Fedynsky Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 24 September 2007 It is said that it takes money to make money. Last year, an economist from Bangladesh won the Nobel Peace Prize for an innovative program called micro-lending that enables poor people to borrow

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By Julie Taboh Washington 28 October 2009 British primatologist Jane Goodall spent almost half-a-century studying the wild chimpanzees of Gombe National Park in Tanzania. Her ground-breaking discoveries have contributed much of what we know about th

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DeVos To Make It Tougher For Defrauded Students To Seek Debt Relief AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: It could become harder for students who were victims of fraud to get rid of their debt. That's because of new rules proposed by the Trump administration. It says

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A New Chinese-Funded Railway In Kenya Sparks Debt-Trap Fears AILSA CHANG, HOST: China has become the biggest lender to governments on the African continent over the past decade. The money has helped build ports, roads, bridges, airports and trains. T

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Official figures show theres been a sharp fall in new home loans. The Bureau of Statistics says the value of new home loans fell by more than 5% in May. It was the biggest monthly fall since 2012. Investor loans dipped by just over 3%. Global growth

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Topics: Famous Americans - Katie Couric Payday loans, pronouncing listen, stepbrother versus half-brother, godmothers and godfathers Words: to rank to find (something) appealing salary offer credentials hard news to turn (something) around payday to

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By Barry Wood Washington 24 October 2007 Financial experts addressing a home builders conference in Washington Wednesday issued grim forecasts, suggesting that the U.S. housing slump is likely to get worse and continue for at least another year. VOA'

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今天我们要学的词是short-term。 Short-term, 短期的。 Short-term loans, 短期贷款。联合国粮农组织最近在罗马开会。 The summit tried to solve the short-term emergency of the increased hunger caused by soaring prices, 这次

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By Jeff Swicord Cleveland, Ohio 18 March 2008 The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has rattled financial markets around the world. The crisis has triggered home foreclosures across the country, causing thousands of Americans to lose thei

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今天我们要学的词是coordinated。Coordinated, 意思是协调的,合作的。为了挽救负债累累的欧洲大陆, The world's major central banks launched a coordinated action to provide cheap, emergency U.S. dollar loans to banks in

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Stocks tumbled around the world on Monday as several markets registered their deepest declines in years. VOA's Barry Wood reports that $2 trillion of value was wiped out in just a single trading day. Wall Street traders, 06 Oct 2008 The steepest dec

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By Barry Wood Washington 13 November 2007 With world credit markets still not functioning smoothly, experts say inadequate US regulation is largely to blame for the home loan related credit squeeze that surfaced last August. VOA's Barry Wood has more

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Amid a continuing housing crisis in the United States, the Bush administration is taking over two failing mortgage firms in an effort to limit further turmoil in the sector. 就在美国房地产市场继续在危机中挣扎时,布什政府将接管

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The economic crisis has spread into many areas of the U.S. economy--banks, investment firms, insurance companies, and even the oil markets. Experts seem to agree that the trouble started with bad loans in the housing industry, and grew into a widespr

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Central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan says the growth targets China has set for the next five years can be realized without major economic stimulus. I personally think China will stick to the prudent monetary policy on condition that there is no globa

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