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This week’s news showed home prices rising, but Robert Shiller, the 2012 CME Group-MSRI Award recipient, wouldn’t bet on a strong U.S. property market recovery. Here are some other stories you may have missed this week:

Mexico is showing confidence, Brazil doubt (Quartz)

Second quarter U.S. GDP was revised down this week. Was the drought to blame? (Wall Street Journal)

A record one in five households owe student loan debt (Pew Research Center)

Nine questions about QE3 answered (Bloomberg)

Madeline Albright and Jimmy Wales discussed taking action in world events at the Clinton Global Initiative this week. Both will be at our Global Financial Leadership Conference in November. (The Daily Beast)

Albright also played the drums this week at a Kennedy Center jazz event. (ArtInfo)

“Consumer confidence is going up, vehicle sales have been solid, home sales are up and retailers are reporting sales gains.” (Associated Press)

Social media is gaining ground in financial services. (Financial News)