Buy-and-Hold Goon to Rob: “If You Had a Serious Life Issue Right Now and Needed $100k to Cover the Cost, Would You Be Able to Do So? Do You Own a Home for Your Retirement Years? Can You Afford to Go on a Retirement Trip? How Is That Playing Out for You?”

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

If you had a serious life issue right now and needed $100k to cover the cost, would you be able to do so?  Do own a home for your retirement years?  Can you afford to go on a retirement trip?  How is that playing out for you?

I sincerely believe that the retirement study posted at John Greaney’s web site lacks an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins, Anonymous. I had become friends with a number of the people who posted at the Motley Fool board during the three years before I worked up the courage to point out the error in the study.

That’s where I’m coming from re this thing.

My best wishes.

Rob