Newshoggers Archive: Nick Hanauer's TED Talk

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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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Nick Hanauer's TED Talk

Posted by John Ballard

This post was first published in May but the message is important enough to repeat, like a drum beat, as often as necessary, between now and November, so that as many people as possible get the point.

==?Jobs are created and sustained by customers, not investors.

Nick Hanauer is rich. Here is the Wikipedia link.

He's what is called a VC, venture capitalist. Those are people who invest their own money in other people's ventures for the purpose of making more money for themselves. He was at the right place at the right time with the right products when Amazon took off. Readers can do their own homework.

As a venture capitalist this guy has probably forgotten more about making money and creating jobs than most political types ever figure out.