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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Sunday, November 14, 2010

Tavakoli on Foreclosure Fraud

Commentary By Ron Beasley


Janet Tavakoli calls em as she sees em when it comes to the fraud in the financial industry.  She doesn't hesitate to take on the big guys.  This is a rather long interview but well worth the time.









Janet Tavakoli on Bank Foreclosure Fraud from David Fry on Vimeo.


She said one thing that jumped right out at me - the big banks are not just too big to fail they are too big to manage. That's the real problem. The bank CEOs may be making millions a year to manage the banks but the banks are simply too big for them to manage. When the CEOs of Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Countrywide, Bank of America and Citigroup sound clueless it's because they are. The big banks are so big and so complex that the CEOs can not possibly know what's going on so they can't possibly earn their big salaries. Just one more reason why they should be broken up.



3 comments:

  1. Hi there,
    Ron Beasley totally gets it. These banks are way too large, and the idea that anyone in the C-suites of these great American institutions knows anything about their actual holdings is laughable on its face. The American people are simply too dumb and lazy to withdraw all their money from Bank of America and put it in a trustworthy local or regional bank that actually knows what it's invested in.
    I honestly think the fact that BofA and Citi ATMs are so ubiquitous is the number one reason these banks continue to dominate our economy after their disgraceful, public failures - people are afraid of the goddamn ATM fees!
    We don't realize that we just paid them the equivalent of a lifetime of ATM fees for every American just so that they wouldn't go out of business, which they clearly deserved to do! As a country, we're making a bad investment by sticking with them. If you're feeling patriotic and/or fed up with Wall Street, pull your money out of these failures and find a responsible financial institution to handle it.

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