“Criminal Acts Are Desperation Moves. The Fact That You Have Behaved As You Have Over the Past 19 Years Shows That Buy-and-Hold Is Hanging on By its Fingernails.”

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 cannot believe that someone like you that spends so much time on making posts, has such little knowledge as to the subject matter.  Don’t you wonder why you can’t get any support here?

I have an amazing amount of support. That’s been true going back to the first day. There were scores of people at the Motley Fool site saying: “Thanks, Rob, for starting the most exciting discussion we have ever seen.” If I didn’t have a great amount of support, you never would have engaged in a single criminal act to hold me back. I mean. come on.

Now — the fact that there are lots of people who want to hear what the research says doesn’t mean that there are lots of people who want to participate in discussions in which the lives of their loves one are threatened by Buy-and-Holders who want to see the Buy-and-Hold Era continue a little while longer. But criminal acts are desperation moves. The fact that you have behaved as you have over the past 19 years shows that Buy-and-Hold is hanging on by its fingernails.

What happens after the next price crash? I think that people start asking questions. And then those of us who believe that Robert Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research is legitimate research provide the answers. And then we all begin living richer and fuller lives from that point forward. We’ll see, you know?

I naturally wish you all the best that this life has to offer regardless of what investment strategy you elect to follow, Anonymous. Hang in there, man.

Rob