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...other number stirring up significant optimism about housing is the Commerce Department's measure of new-home sales. In July, for the fourth month in a row, the number of new homes sold, on a seasonally adjusted basis, rose. July's jump, of 9.6%, seems downright striking...
...decades of historical study to start dispensing money to banks and then quasi-banks and then companies that weren't banks at all. In his insider account In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, David Wessel details how Bernanke essentially turned himself into a fourth branch of government, exploiting a loophole in a 1932 law that gave the Fed wide latitude in "unusual and exigent circumstances" to become a virtual economic commander in chief, dropping several trillion dollars into the nation's credit jet stream without presidential or congressional input, inaugurating all kinds of unprecedented...
...Administration is also expected to release a fourth OLC memo, from 2007, as well as a Justice Department memo from 2006, about conditions at the secret prisons. And, as if to underline the Administration's commitment to transparency, the Pentagon has decided to notify the Red Cross of the identifies of the detainees being held in secret camps in Iraq and Afghanistan...
Yale took third place, with a four-way tie for fourth pitting the University of Pennsylvania and MIT against the California Institute of Technology and Stanford...
...FOURTH LAYER—BURGERS