“Had It Not Been for the Abusive Behavior of you Goons, Valuation-Informed Indexing Would Today Be the Dominant Model for Understanding How Stock Investing Works. It Would Have Supplanted Buy-and-Hold. That Ain’t Nothing!”

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 believe that it may get some traction in the days and years following the onset of the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis. That would be super, That is what I hope will happen.”

It is your hope, just like everything you have placed hope in. It hasn’t gotten any real traction in well over 20 years. At some point, hope gives way to facing reality. It is long past the time for you to look at reality based not only on the passing of over 2 decades, but given your age, you have minimal choices to at least salvage something for whatever meager retirement fund you might be able to scrap together. You even destroyed your earnings history for social security benefits, so I can’t think of how you could be in any worse situation.

It has gotten TONS of traction. Not enough to overcome you Goons, that much is so. But enough to show that, had it not been for the abusive behavior of you Goons, Valuation-Informed Indexing would have taken over the world a long time ago. Had it not been for the abusive behavior of you Goons, Valuation-Informed Indexing would today be the dominant model for understanding how stock investing works. It would have supplanted Buy-and-Hold. That ain’t nothing!

I have seen some amazing things happen. John Walter Russell was the most respected numbers guy in the Retire Early community. He devoted eight years of his life to researching my ideas without receiving a penny of compensation. Wade Pfau came to me and asked if it would be okay if he published peer-reviewed research on the Valuation-Informed Indexing concept. Then he concluded that it checked out completely. He was so excited by what he found that he was talking about receiving a Nobel prize for his work. We have seen THOUSANDS of our fellow community members express a desire that honest posting re the research he permitted. That’s traction.

The only hold-up has been the abusiveness and the criminal behavior of you Goons. And that abusiveness actually tells the same story, just in a different way. If you Goons hadn’t seen how much interest there is in the Valuation-Informed Indexing concept, you would have no problem with it. You wouldn’t just say: “So what? Let people invest how they want to invest.” The fact that you see it as such a threat shows that you appreciate that there are MILLIONS of investors who would like to learn what the research really says. Your behavior is a back-handed compliment but it’s a compliment all the same.

Or so I sincerely believe, in any event.

Rob