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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Friday, November 5, 2010

Wahoo, 1st derivative is zero!

By Dave Anderson:


Ian Welsh notes the non-farm payroll employment report changes the first derivative from negative (things are still getting worse) to zero (break-even):


151,000 jobs were gained last month.  150K is the break-even point given population gain to maintain employment.  This is neither a good nor a bad figure.


Zero on the first derivative and a positive second derivative is a definate improvement over a negative first derivative and a positive second derivative that was the primary Obama economic team talking point for most of the past year, but the employment hole is huge and while breaking even is better than digging deeper, it is still just breaking even.  Population growth combined with net job losses means we need to see nine million or more jobs to get to an employment:population ratio that is equal to the last peak.  And it is only at that point there is a chance for market forces to increase real and nominal wages. 



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