“Every Member of My Family Lives in the United States. My Mother Lived Through the Great Depression. She Told Me Stories. This Way, I Can Go to Sleep at Night Knowing That I Did Everything in My Power to Spare the Members of My Family What We Are Going to See If the Continued Promotion of the Buy-and-Hold ‘Strategy’ Brings on the Second Great Depression.”

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

“Would it have been better if I had just kept my mouth shut about the error in the Greaney study?”

Every member of your family would answer that one with a big fat Yes.

How lucky for the world that their opinions don’t matter.

I don’t know, Anonymous. Every member of my family lives in the United States. My mother lived through the Great Depression. She told me stories. This way, I can go to sleep at night knowing that I did everything in my power to spare the members of my family what we are going to see if the continued promotion of the Buy-and-Hold “strategy” brings on the Second Great Depression.

The crazy stuff is out of my hands. I have spoken out in opposition to it on many occasions. No one person can bring it to an end on his or her own. We are all going to need to pull together as a society if we want to see that little dream come true. ALL of the families in the United States have a role to play here. No reasonable person can deny that I have done my part and then some more on top of that and then some more on top of that.

Don’t let the bad guys get you down, my good friend.

Rob