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 my Tesla had a microwave oven, we would see the greatest economic boom in history.
It’s your opinion that valuation-based market timing is not required. It’s my opinion that it is.
If there were no abusive posting, both opinions would be represented in every discussion held on the internet. Your opinion is held by ten times the number of people who hold my opinion. So there would be more people giving voice to your opinion, in the short term. I believe that, so long as my opinion was represented in every discussion, over time we would see more people coming around to support my opinion. There’s only one way to find out for sure.
It is not your place to “win” the debate by imposing a ban on honest posting. You agreed to follow the published rules of the various sites and you should honor that promise. Each community member should be able to hear both opinions and to make up his or her mind as to how to invest his or her retirement money.
That’s where I’m coming from re this one, in any event.
I sincere believe that the Greaney retirement study lacks a valuation adjustment.
Rob
The world believes that you have some type of mental disorder and that you are not able to have a normal discussion. You can either get treatment or continue down the same track of despair.
I do not believe that the Greaney retirement study contains a valuation adjustment. Most of the world does not believe that I suffer a mental illness because I believe that. It is only a small percentage of the world — the members of the various Buy-and-Hold Goon squads, which make up about 10 percent of the population of Buy-and-Holders — that pretends to see it that way. So be it, you know? I believe that those of us who want to hold discussions about the last 43 years of peer-reviewed research — the vast majority of stock investors — will prevail over you Goons in the days and years following the onset of the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis. I certainly hope so.
I wish you all good things.
Rob
Goon squads? Yes, the world is correct. You have some mental issues.
Okay, Anonymous.
Rob