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“Is It My Failure If Many Buy-and-Holders Did Not Call for the Greaney Retirement Study to be Corrected Even Though It Is Obvious to Anyone Who Checks That It Lacks a Valuation Adjustment?”

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

“ There shouldn’t be any conflict. When I do good journalism work, that should help the people who read my stuff while also helping me financially. ”

Since you haven’t earned a dime, you must be doing poorly with journalism. This has been going on for over 20 years. Perhaps you should have sought other work after the first 5 years of failure.

The Greaney study had not been corrected at the end of five years, Anonymous.

Is it my failure if many Buy-and-Holders did not call for the study to be corrected even though it is obvious to anyone who checks that it lacks a valuation adjustment?

Rob

Comments

  1. You must be right about everything since you get thousands of comments a day, have $500 million sitting in your bank account and your book is #1 on the New York Times best sellers list.

  4. It is the opposite. What that tells me is that I must be on to something important.

    Say that every idea I have advanced over the past 20 years was foolishness. If that were so,, I wouldn’t be banned at a single site. The Buy-and-Holders would just say: “ho-hum, nobody is going to listen to this guy, let him waste his breath talking if he wants.” That’s not the reaction that I have seen, as you note. The Buy-and-Holders wouldn’t get so upset if they didn’t find Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research very, very threatening. The fact that they find it so threatening shows why it is so important that we all talk about it and come to terms with it.

    People don’t freak out over ordinary stuff. Your 20-year-long insane freakout tells me that Shiller’s research is not ordinary stuff. It is important stuff.

    Rob

  5. “ It is the opposite. What that tells me is that I must be on to something important.”

    The opposite would mean that you are wrong about everything, you don’t have any followers, you don’t have a book on the New York Times best sellers yet (let alone you haven’t finished the long overdue book).

    There is no freak out, except from you. Even Shiller has disappointed you by him telling you not to time the market with CAPE and his most recent stock recommendation.