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It's already bad for autoworkers, and it's about to get much worse very soon....

Stuck on The Brakes

There's been a lot of talk about the huge first-week debut of Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III. Some are amazed an album can still sell in the digital age.

CNN is reporting that foreclosures jumped in May by a whopping 48%.

Reuters reports that the housing market continues to tank. (You can buy my Franklin, Tenn. home by clicking here!)

Sales of previously owned U.S.

From the Times Free Press:

Tennessee shoppers won’t get another sales-tax holiday next spring as state officials try to cope with the biggest drop in sales-tax collections in a half century.

Not a ton of news or posts coming out of NARM (I expected more given the conference was held in blogger- and media-heavy San Francisco), but there are a few posts of interest today.

I thought it was interesting to see The Tennessean cover the increasing difficulty of commercial construction in the wake of a sputtering national economy without mentioning any news about the Signature Tower, the largest proposed commercial construction project in the city.

Some bloggers appear to have caught Tennessee Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr in an untruth about the state's tax on digital music downloads, thanks to a ruling approved by Farr himself just a few weeks ago which categorically states that "songs downloaded onto the hard drive or accessed via the

Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article on rising property taxes and guess what two Tennessee cities made the article?  Oak Ridge and Memphis, two cities that already have the distinguished honor of being two of the highest taxed cities in the state.

From the Journal: