Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
You should realize you have a sickness when you can’t even stop posting on a holiday. Get help.
I love honest posting. I love Valuation-Informed Indexing. I love stock investing. I love early financial freedom. I love this new communications medium. Holidays are about kicking your feet up and having fun. Why would I want to pull back on holidays? That would make no sense.
As you know, I am focused nowadays on writing my book. There’s a sentence in Chapter Thirteen where I say: “This is the most important book ever published in the field of personal finance.” I go on to explain that the purpose of the statement is not to brag, it is to tell a story that very, very, very much needs to be told.
The thought that the market is efficient was a mistake. It didn’t have to be such a big deal. We all make mistakes. The trouble is that the mistake has been so destructive to so many human lives that the Buy-and-Holders cannot bear to acknowledge the mistake. And so we are now all stuck in this bizarro world where any crazy idea about how stock investing works can be advanced but the one thing that is absolutely prohibited is honest posting re what the last 38 years of peer-reviewed research teaches us about this important subject. I continue to believe that deep in our hearts we are all united in wanting to find our way to the other side of The Big Black Mountain. We’re all in the same boat. We all need to know how stock investing works in the real world.
I offer no apologies for feeling strong enough in my desire to help millions of people protect their retirement savings to post here even on holidays. Holidays are about spreading love, about shining a light in the darkness. That’s Valuation-Informed Indexing. That’s the first true research-based investment strategy. That’s honest posting. That’s the real turtle soup and not the mock.
My sincere take, Anonymous.
Truly and Deeply Sick (and Proud of It!) Rob
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