Jonathan Franzen: Immigration

S Commerce Dept: In addition to author Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom , whose suburban liberal characters have grown as weary of their own lives as so many of their real-life versions seem to have become of Mr. Obama, the President has been poring over economic reports abominable enough to ruin any vacation, according to Globe And Mail. The White House scrambled to organize a conference call Wednesday between Mr. Obama and his economic policy heavyweights after the U.S. Commerce Department reported that new house sales plummeted in July to their lowest annual rate since 1963. “Doing a lot of reading,” the President quipped to reporters on his way to dinner Tuesday night. From plunging home sales and spiking jobless claims to diving orders for durable goods, mounting evidence that the U.S. economic recovery has stalled is sending Democratic strategists into fits of anxiety, with fewer than 10 weeks left until Americans vote in the Nov. 2 congressional elections. As reported in the news.
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