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 have something else that I want you to say. Just admit that no one else, other than you, has said Greaney made an error.
That I cannot say. Wade Pfau told me that he thought that the Greaney study was “dangerous.” John Walter Russell researched the matter in depth and concluded that: “The Safe Withdrawal Rate debate is over. Hocus has won.” William Bernstein wrote in his book that the safe withdrawal rate at the top of the bubble was 2 percent. Hundreds of our fellow community members advanced comments in which they expressed a desire that honest posting re the peer-reviewed research be permitted, which shows that they at least believed that the questions of whether the Greaney retirement study is in error should be explored. And of course the behavior of you Goons for 22 years now shows that you don’t believe that the Greaney retirement study contains a valuation adjustment any more than I do. 100 percent of the evidence that we have seen over the first 22 years of our discussions shows that the Greaney study is in error and 0 percent show that the study contains a valuation adjustment.
My best wishes to you, Anonymous.
Where are all these hundreds and thousands that want to hear your version of honest posting. You can’t support a single one of your claims. It is all made up.
Yeah, the Greaney retirement study had a valuation adjustment in it all along. I just overlooked it.
I could have saved everyone a lot of trouble if I had just checked it over a second time!
Rob
My Tesla must had that microwave oven in the trunk. I just overlooked it.
You could have been warming up frozen dinners during those long drives all along! It’s a sad story.
Live and learn.
Rob
As Evidence and hundreds of other have said, it didn’t need an adjustment. It has been explained to you thousands of times. You just use it as a diversionary topic to hide from your problems. You are broke, Rob. People run away from you, including your family.
The diversionary tactic that was awarded a Nobel prize.
That’s some diversionary tactic!
Rob
You must be right on everything considering you massive retirement portfolio. Will you and the family be spending the summer in Europe this year?
I won’t be in Europe, Anonymous. But I’ll be able to sleep at night with a clear conscience in the more humble place where I’ll be residing. If I said that I believe that the Greaney retirement study contains a valuation adjustment, I would no longer be able to do that. Thanks but no thanks, you know?
My best wishes.
Rob