Subject: Wall Street

• Republicans & Regulation: Crisis Makes for Strange Bedfellows

  September 18, 2008

• HUD to Make Cash Drop on Tennessee

  September 26, 2008

• The Marsha Chronicles

  September 30, 2008

• Conservative Hypocrisy and the Financial Bailout Plan

  October 1, 2008

• Tonight: Drown Your Debate Fears in Booze, Bands

  October 2, 2008

• Please Don’t Loosen the Charter Schools Rules

  October 14, 2008

• One Potato, Two Potato-related Items

  October 17, 2008

• Is Anybody Buying the Whole "Socialism" Slur?

  October 30, 2008

• Bad Company

  October 15, 1998

• Where's Your $2 Trillion? The Feds Refuse to Say

  November 10, 2008

• Truffle Bubble Bobbled, Starbucks Shuffle Kerfuffle, Lunch Duffles Sales Double

  The truffle market has collapsed, Starbucks' profits are down 97 percent and there's been a surge in lunch box sales, all apparent consequences of the collapse of the slow markets. A white truffle weighing nearly two pounds auctioned off this week brought in about $30,000, 84 percent less than at a similar auction last year, reports Bloomberg.com. Starbucks, the ubiquitous coffee chain, told Wall Street that fourth-quarter profits would be way down due to slower sales and substantial charge

  November 14, 2008

• Weiners, JEFF, Ghostland Observatory, The Features & More: Workin' for the Weekend

  Mind riders: JEFF the Brotherhood play twice this weekend. How's you're weekend shaping up? Friday Nov. 21 Ghostland Observatory w/Jensen Sportag at Mercy Lounge, 9 p.m. Ghostfinger & Shoot the Mountain are at Wall Street. We think. There's been some confusion about the lineup. Anyone? The Dead Trees & more at Exit/In, 8 p.m. Weiners (feat. Wes from MEEMAW) w/Jeruselum and the Starbaskets, Heater & JEFF the Brotherhood at Lil Hammy (1318 Little Hamilton). All ages, 8 p.m. Ricky Young wi

  November 21, 2008

• Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain Retreats, But Where's the Outcry from Bob Corker?

  Surely you've been here:You're at the grocery store. You're broke. You've cobbled together mangled bills from your pocket and loose change from your car to pay for a meager supply of food to get you through the week. Maybe a loaf of discount white bread and those 69-cent packs of hot dogs, made from processed turkey and innards swept from the factory floor. There's a lady in line ahead of you. She's buying steak, chips and those pre-fab dinners with 17 pounds of packaging that microwave to insta

  December 9, 2008

• Fightin' Zach Wamp Unveils Campaign Strategy

  Zach Wamp has decided to wage an improbable populist campaign for the Republican nomination for governor--he's running as an underfunded underdog fighting to save the GOP from those evil oil and drug companies. Not coincidentally, two of his main rivals are tied to those industries. Bill Haslam's family founded Pilot Oil and Ron Ramsey's sugar daddy is John Gregory of King Pharmaceuticals.Here's the feisty Wamp telling Capitol reporters this morning that his campaign will go after "ordinary, tax

  January 13, 2009

• Bredesen Denies Groveling for Cabinet Job

  In a conference call with reporters across the state this morning, Gov. Phil Bredesen laughed off the suggestion that he was lobbying for an Obama Cabinet spot in his "State of the State" speech last night. "First of all while I think my State of State speeches are very important, I kind of suspect that President Obama wasn't watching, nor was Rahm Emanuel." "There wasn't any signal intended in that stuff," he said of the interviews he gave yesterday to Wall Street Journal and Politico. He des

  February 10, 2009

• The Day the Economy Almost Collapsed

  The Wall Street bailout has left a bitter taste. President Bush and Congress passed it with virtually no strings attached, paid way over market rates for the assets they purchased, and did nothing to halt executives from spending like trust fund kids in Aspen. But it did keep the U.S. from becoming a Cambodia with SUVs. The above video from C-SPAN features Pennsylvania Congressman Paul Kanjorski talking about a day in September when our financial system nearly collapsed. He says that over

  February 11, 2009

• Faces of Foreclosure: Activist Molly Secours May Soon Be Homeless

  This just in: The economy has tanked, the market has crashed, and home foreclosures are at record numbers. Even though this is relatively recent history, it's already starting to feel like the status quo. Reports about clueless auto execs testifying before congress, Wall Street twerps being handsomely rewarded for their malfeasance, and entire neighborhoods being abandoned due to foreclosure are the norm. Sure, it's hitting everyone to some degree, but with the onslaught of grim news, you can

  February 12, 2009

• Red State Update: Wall Street Bonus Edition

  Our heroes discuss Wall Street bonuses, the mayor of Las Vegas, and the proper wages due your henchmen.

  February 17, 2009

• A Bad Economy: It's Your Fault for Not Spending More

  That seems to be the sentiment of Obama's director of the National Economic Council, Lawrence Summers. Yesterday he spoke of how "an excess of fear" is causing the continued downward slide. Since consumer spending composes 70 percent of the economy, and people are hanging onto what little they have, it's our fear, not widespread bungling from Wall Street to Washington, that's at the root of our misery.It's an idea you hear a lot these days, mainly from guys with enough money not to worry. But ho

  March 13, 2009

• AIG: Where Failure is Worth a $450 Million Bonus

  Edward Liddy: Could he be America's greatest moron?The funniest (or saddest) thing about the AIG bonuses isn't that you're about to pay $450 million to subsidize the bonuses of failed executives. It's how it speaks to the breathtaking incompetence and inefficiency of Wall Street. In case you missed it, AIG, which has received $170 billion in welfare from the federal government to stave off collapse, is in the process of kicking $450 million in bonuses to its executives. Much of it's going to man

  March 16, 2009

• Happy Anniversary! Bailouts Celebrate First Birthday

  They grow up so fast, don't they? A year ago today the Feds birthed the country's first bailout by buying up $30 billion in junky Bear Stearns' mortgage loans, thus allowing JP Morgan to buy the failing investment bank. 12 months later, that bouncing babe is now a full-grown man-child, responsible for nearly a trillion in taxpayer obligations covering the banking, auto and insurance industries.Just for kicks, let's take a look back at some of the expressions of awe registered last March 17th. We

  March 17, 2009

• GOP Jumps on Bredesen for Bond Deals: 'The Fish Rots from the Head Down'

  The Tennessee Republican Party goes on the attack over the Bredesen administration's promotion of risky bond deals to Tennessee cities. GOP chair Robin Smith: "Gov. Bredesen won two elections by touting his business acumen and managerial skills, but today the state government faces a billion-dollar deficit because the governor increased spending far faster than the growth of the average incomes of the people of Tennessee, whose taxes cover the checks the governor signs," said Robin Smith, Chair

  April 9, 2009

• A Call to Pitchforks

  June 26, 2008

• The Young and the Restless

  A broad look at Middle Tennessee’s next generation of artists

  November 22, 2007

• Fort Awesome

  In Murfreesboro’s underground house party scene, kids make their own fun

  August 24, 2006

• How They Live Now

  Jay McInerney’s apocalyptic love story provides anthropological view of post-9/11 Manhattanites

  February 23, 2006

• Music Scene

  A guide to music in Music City

  August 25, 2005

• Weekend Updates

  Entertaining ways to avoid labor this Labor Day weekend

  September 2, 2004

• On the Town

  For a little Southern city in the Bible Belt, Nashville sure knows how to have a good time

  August 19, 2004

• Stage Dive

  Murfreesboro music night's better late than never, literally

  May 6, 2004

• Classic Comedy Holds Up

  ACT I production of You Can’t Take It With You elicits enough laughs

  February 19, 2004

• The Integrity Recession

  Greed is still good in corporate America

  June 27, 2002

• When Interests Collide

  Why Wall Street analysts love companies on the verge of failure

  March 7, 2002

• A List

  February 21, 2002

• The Week That Was

  Nash bridges

  June 21, 2001

• Infinite Loop

  May 24, 2001

• The Big Chill

  The New Economy looks suspiciously like the old one

  March 29, 2001

• Investment Misadventures

  February 22, 2001

• Re-Fried Chicken

  John Jay Hooker responds to Minnie Pearl story

  October 5, 2000

• Black Box

  Who wants to be a fall TV survivor?

  September 7, 2000

• Fète Accompli

  Film festival looks to build on last year's extraordinary success

  April 20, 2000

• Broken Records

  February 11, 1999

• Nosing in on the 'Net

  August 13, 1998

• Stock and Trade

  August 8, 1996

• Hotpipes, Hammertorch, Sesame Street Slayer: Skeletal Newsy Bits

  * Skeletor and Early Man. Just because. (HT: Brandez.) * Oh, fine. You want Sesame Street Slayer instead? * For the six of you who have not already heard through vines of various kinds, Hotpipes have broken up. Let's just say we weren't happy to hear that. * Someone/something called Live on the Green just started following Nashville Cream on twitter. Their web address is Lightning 100's site and they tell us to "get ready for the official announcement." Sounds like a concert series of some

  July 2, 2009

• Fresh Track and More: Hammertorch Release Lions Don't Cry at The 5 Spot July 23

  Hammertorch--the most legit alt-country five-piece to come out of Murfreesboro since you-know-who (rhymes with Flossary)--have just finished a brand-new record called Lions Don't Cry, and they're celebrating its release at The 5 Spot tomorrow evening. Also playing are Chris Crofton and the Alcohol Stuntband--last seen kicking ass unironically on Monday night--as well as Eric Zarycki and the Persuasion. I gave the record a spin and wrote up a little Critic's Pick: Sometimes Hammertorch crank out

  July 22, 2009

• Merle Hazard's Latest: Bail 'em Out, Good Buddy

  Nashville's crooning practitioner of the dismal science, Merle Hazard, is back in the econosaddle with a hot new tune (and a green screen!) about Wall Street bailouts, investment banks, and the Fed. Merle even done got himself a mention from those city slickers at The New York Times -- now don't that beat all?

  July 28, 2009

• All We Seabees Split Official, Final Show Tonight, Aug. 1

  ​Remember how we tried to tell you that All We Seabees were calling it quits, but then they were like, "Oh wait...we might not be..."? Well they're officially ready to announce that they're done, and their final show is tonight at Wall Street in Murfreesboro. It's Hammertorch's second CD release--the one they're doing for their M'boro buddies--and it's your last chance to see the Seabees play their unique brand of folk. Possibly ever. So go. If you have gas money.

  August 1, 2009

• Lamar's Nuclear Dreams: A Trillion-Dollar Bailout in the Making

  ​Lamar Alexander is leading Republican calls for massive new construction of nuclear power plants. He wants to double the number of U.S. reactors. "It is already far and away our best defense against global warming. So why not build 100 new nuclear power plants in 20 years?" he says. The short answer? It costs too much. As this article in today's Christian Science Monitor explains, the new debate over nuclear power is focused not on worries over meltdowns or radioactive waste but on who w

  August 14, 2009

• Morning Roundup: Halley's Comet Moment Passes and Lawmakers Go Back to Business as Usual

  ​Now that the Race to the Top application has been delivered, the planets have unaligned and lawmakers go back into their usual drag-the-feet mode. Senate speaker Ron Ramsey: "I'm not sure anyone wants to tackle anything too controversial in this one week of special session that we have." ... A Capitol Hill Conversation on the special session.

  January 20, 2010