“There Is a Huge Resistance to the Idea of Acknowledging What the Last 38 Years of Peer-Reviewed Research Teaches Us About How Stock Investing Works in the Real World. Acknowledging the Far-Reaching Implications of Shiller’s “Revolutionary” (His Word) Research Findings Means Rewriting Every Investing Book in the Bookstores. It Means Rejiggering Every Calculator on the Internet. It Means That Lots of Powerful and Wealthy People Who Make Their Careers As Investment Experts Will Lose Status and Lots of Currently Non-Powerful and Non-Wealthy People Will Rise Up to Take Their Place.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posed to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“It doesn’t matter what you say you see or what I say I see. ”

It does matter. You have made a series of accusations saying that people made death threats and job threats. Serious accusations require proof. If those accusations are true, then those people that made such threats need to be dealt with. However, if your claims are not proven, then you need to get some help as that is abnormal behavior and cannot be tolerated.

I have said that there have been death threats. I have said that there have been job threats.

There is a mountain of proof. It is impossible for the human mind to imagine how there could be more proof.

If you want absolute proof, check the retirement study posted at John Greaney’s web site. If that study does not contain an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins, how do you think that happened? It happened because there is a huge resistance to the idea of acknowledging what the last 38 years of peer-reviewed research teaches us about how stock investing works in the real world.

Acknowledging the far-reaching implications of Shiller’s “revolutionary” (his word) research findings means rewriting every investing book in the bookstores. It means rejiggering every calculator on the internet. It means that lots of powerful and wealthy people who make their careers as investment experts will lose status and lots of currently non-powerful and non-wealthy people will rise up to take their place. The shift from Buy-and-Hold to Valuation-Informed Indexing is the biggest advance in the history of personal finance. That’s why it has been so hard for us as a society to take action re the criminal acts that are the only thing keeping the massive act of financial fraud going at this point.

But we’re close. One more price crash that remains in place for a few years will do it, in my assessment. I am confident that at that time you will not have any problem finding lots and lots and lots of people willing to supply you with THOUSANDS of links proving that the criminal acts took place.

A few weeks ago there was no proof that Epstein committed crimes, in the minds of many. Today there is. Things change, Anonymous.

We all want the same thing. We all want to know how stock investing works in the real world. So I think that we all are going to pull together following the next price crash and get that darn Greaney study corrected and then do of the other good stuff that inevitably will follow from taking on that one. But you are not going to come clean just because that’s what I believe. You are going to have to be taken away on handcuffs for the new realities to hit. Epstein was still keeping evidence of his crimes in his house when he was arrested and a warrant for a search was obtained. The humans have a hard time letting this sort of thing in. The humans who are the type to commit criminal acts have a particularly hard time.

So be it, you know? If there is ever anything that I can do to help you out, please just let me know and I will be on it. No felonies, though. That’s the exception. That one doesn’t fly with this boy. No freakin’ way, no freakin’ how. Not a close call. Non-negotiable.

My best and warmest wishes to you.

Shocked-by-the-Epstein-Stuff Rob