“Something That We Experienced Over and Over Again Is the Surprise and Shock That People Felt When They Considered FOR THE FIRST TIME the How-To Implications of Shiller’s Amazing Research Findings.”

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>Everyone has heard them and it is not for you to demand that others give you access to their websites to push your agenda. Just like you block people at your website, people can choose to block you.</I>

Something that we experienced over and over again is the surprise and shock that people felt when they considered FOR THE FIRST TIME the how-to implications of Shiller’s amazing research findings. John Walter Russell devoted eight years of his life to researching those implications after seeing me bring them up at the Motley Fool board and doing some preliminary investigations that proved that my posts possessed merit. Wade Pfau held a Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton but he had never before seen these possibilities explored. This is why he was so excited that he could not sleep at night and had visions of being awarded a Nobel prize for the work he was doing with me. He told me that he kept asking himself “Am I missing something?” because he couldn’t understand why no one else had looked into these matters.

He solved that puzzle when you Goons threatened to get him fired from his job if he continued doing honest research re these questions. It’s the intense hostility that a small percentage of Buy-and-Holders feels to the idea of people exploring the far-reaching implications of Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research that is holding all the rest of us back. We need as a nation of people to work up the courage to stand up to you and to hold the discussions that we should have been holding a long, long time ago. I believe that we may see it happen in the days and years following the onset of the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis.

I sure hope so. We’ll see.

Rob