“I Can Report That Greaney’s Retirement Study Caused a Good Number of People at the Retire Early Board to Go With Lower Withdrawal Rates Than They Would Have Gone With Had Greaney Not Posted and Promoted His Study. That’s a Positive. I Can Honestly Say That That’s the Case. So I Have No Problem Doing So.”

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

“ I hope that that helps at least a tiny bit.”

You are not paying attention. We are not looking for help. Your the one with the problem and you are looking to blame everyone else.

My strong sense is that you are indeed looking for help, Anonymous. If you weren’t looking for help, you wouldn’t be posting here.

I am 100 percent willing and happy to offer you some help. As just one example of how I can help, I can report that Greaney’s retirement study caused a good number of people at the Retire Early board to go with lower withdrawal rates than they would have gone with had Greaney not posted and promoted his study. That’s a positive. I can honestly say that that’s the case. So I have no problem doing so.

Does that mean that you will have no prison sentence? I don’t think so. There has never been a situation like this. So I cannot say for sure what will happen. But I would not feel comfortable promising you that the things that I say will get your prison sentence reduced to zero. I’ll give it my best shot. That much I can promise.

I cannot say that I believe that Greaney included a valuations adjustment in the study. That’s always been the sticking point. I have zero willingness to go to the wrong side of the felony line myself. So I think that it would be fair to say that we are just going to have to wait to see how things play out in the days following the next price crash.

I hope that that works for you, dear Goon friend.

Helpful (But Not the the Point of Committing Felonies) Rob