“The Story of My Divorce Offers the Explanation. Until Every Site Is Opened to Honest Posting, There Will Be a Heavy Price To Be Paid for Telling the Truth About Stock Investing. That Scares \People. So Lots of Smart People Who Could Be Helping Us All Pull Their Punches.”

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’ll delete this of course, but one has to wonder why you are pretending to still be married.  What possible purpose does that serve?  For someone who brags about his honesty, you have some glaring exceptions.

I do not pretend. This is an investing site. The investing question is — Should we or should we not open every internet site to honest posting re the last 41 years of peer-reviewed research in this field. I have answered that one on thousands of occasions. in very clear and forceful terms.

I discuss the divorce in the opening pages of my book. Most people would not think of an author’s divorce as an investing topic. But in this particular case, it is one. That hardest thing to understand about this story is, why are there still people saying 41 years after the peer-reviewed research was published showing that market timing (price discipline!) is always 100 percent required for every investor that there might be some alternate universe where stock investing works just the opposite to how it has always worked here on good old Planet Earth. The story of my divorce offers the explanation. Until every site is opened to honest posting, there will be a heavy price to be paid for telling the truth about stock investing. That scares people. So lots of smart people who could be helping us all pull their punches.

You Goons occasionally ask questions about my wife’s views. I respond to them to the extent they are relevant. As I said in a recent comment here, my ex is like millions of other Americans re this matter. She and they have never seen a cover-up of this magnitude. So it is more than a little hard to take in. People just cannot believe that something like this could happen. It’s one of my primary jobs in the book to explain how it did happen.

Other than that, my divorce is none of your business. To the extent that it is relevant to the investing issues that the site was formed to address, I discuss it. Outside of that, I do not.

Fair enough?

Rob