Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, November 12, 2009

Unemployment on Paper

By John Ballard



Charts like this are supposed to make us feel better. Light at the end of the tunnel and all that.
I would feel better if I didn't have such a bad attitude about the Reagan/Clinton/Bush years. The last two and a half decades will be remembered as the Age of Bubble Assets. Those of us who stuck with a cash economy didn't live as well, but we sustained relatively little economic scar tissue. But the numberless millions living on borrowed money are paying a dear price.

Found this at Mark Thoma's new blog at CBS Money Watch, Maximum Utility.



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Blood doesn't show on balance sheets and charts such as this do not reflect the toll of human suffering not measurable in graphic form. Part of what does not show is the widening gap between the very rich and the rest. And contributing to that gap is another gap shown on this chart labeled "delays" which is the running start investors have ahead of the jobless population. Even when the economy is "normal" announcements of mass layoffs often trigger an uptick in the price of a company stock. Labor, you know, is just another business expense.



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  1. Online CasinosNovember 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM

    Nice illustrations here.

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  2. Appreciate Your ResearchNovember 14, 2009 at 11:05 AM

    Found this at Mark Thoma's new blog at CBS Money Watch, Maximum Utility. <<< Thanks for finding this for us !! Thoma knows what he is talking about.
    another econ / finance blog that has similar charts / analysis is Calculated Risk - the guy who runs it is at the top of people who know wtf is going on.
    http://www.calculatedriskblog.com/

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