If you woke up this morning thinking the toughest day of the week had been and gone, you were wrong. Mondays may have long been thought of as miserable, but were more likely to feel down in the dumps on a Tuesday. According to researchers from the Lo...
This is the VOA Special English Economics Report. They are not even five millimeters long and cannot fly or jump. Yet bedbugs strike fear in homeowners and business owners. Well, not all business owners. Some see money in these little bloodsuckers. M...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. central bank saw the country's economic activity continued to rise, but at a modest pace, according to the latest Federal Reserve(联邦储备系统) survey released on Wednesday. The survey(调查), k...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Xinhua) -- Thanks to a massive(巨大的) and sustained(持久的) policy response, the U.S. economy has continued to recover from the worst recession(衰退,不景气) since the Great Depression, but the recovery rem...
President Barack Obama listens during a talk about the economy in Columbus, Ohio, 18 Aug 2010 U.S. President Barack Obama is concluding a three-day, five-state trip around the country, defending his administration's progress in repairing the economy....
Peter the Great, Joseph Stalin and now Russian President Dmitri Medvedev all set ambitious goals of modernizing Russia. Last September, Mr. Medvedev published an essay entitled Go, Russia! that spelled out a new strategy to use technology and innovat...
President Barack Obama steps out of a 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee during his tour the Jefferson North Chrysler Plant in Detroit, Friday, July 30, 2010. President Barack Obama visited two automobile manufacturing plants near Detroit, Michigan, to spotlig...
Seattle Police arrest a protester for obstructing traffic during a rally to demand comprehensive immigration reform, 23 June 2010 A tough immigration enforcement law scheduled to take effect in Arizona at the end of July is touching off debate and co...
US President Barack Obama gestures alongside French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the Deerhurst Resort at Muskoka, in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, 25 Jun 2010 World leaders in the Group of Eight (G8) have con...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev say they have succeeded in resetting their countries' relationship, which had drifted in recent years. The two leaders discussed trade and security at the White House Thursday, after g...