“There Is All the Difference in the World Between Knowing As a Matter of Theory That There Is Zero Chance That a Strategy Could Ever Work for Even a Single Long-Term Investor and Seeing With Your Own Eyes the Real-World Consequences That Following That Strategy Had on Your Friends and Your Neighbors and Your Co-Workers.”

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

“We live in communities, Anonymous. ”

Yes, we live in communities. These communities don’t allow made up death threats. They don’t allow made up job threats. They don’t tolerate bad behavior. That is why the communities banned you.

It’s all going to come down to what happens in the days following the next price crash, Anonymous.

I am not able to lie to my friends about the numbers that they are using to plan their retirements. You Goons do not feel able to come clean re the 17-year cover-up of the error that Greaney made in the retirement study posted at his web site. We are at a standoff.

I believe that we will see a change in the circumstances that apply in the days following the next price crash. A 60 percent drop in stock prices is doing to hurt us all in very serious ways. There is all the difference in the world between knowing as a matter of theory that there is zero chance that a strategy could ever work for even a single long-term investor and seeing with your own eyes the real-world consequences that following that strategy had on your friends and your neighbors and your co-workers.

I think that we are a good people. The fact that Shiller’s book found a publisher shows that. The fact that it became a best-seller shows that. The fact that he was awarded a Nobel prize shows that. The fact that we have had thousands of our fellow community members express a desire that honest posting on the last 38 years of peer-reviewed research in this field be permitted at every discussion board and blog on the internet shows that. The fact that an academic researcher holding a Ph.D. in Economics contacted me to ask if I would work with him to co-author research showing the superiority of Valuation-Informed Indexing over Buy-and-Hold shows that. The fact that that this researcher was so excited over our findings that he was thinking of having the research published in the most prestigious journal in the field shows that. A good people is going to fix this problem after it has seen with its own eyes the pain that will be suffered by millions of middle-class people from the continued promotion of the pure Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold approach. I am sure.

I will do whatever I can to help you out at that time. I will not say that I believe that the study posted at Greaney’s site contains a valuation adjustment. But I will do whatever I can that does not take me to the wrong side of the felony line. I wish you all the best of luck with it.

Bad Behaving Rob