Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:
Once again, you avoid answering the question: what would people be paying you for: you have nothing to sell and you have no services to offer that people want.
If you didn’t think that there is a huge market for honest, accurate, research-based investment advice, you wouldn’t have devoted the last 23 years of your life to suppressing discussion of the last 44 years of peer-reviewed research in this field.
I mean, come on.
Rob
How can any of us be suppressing information. We don’t run any of these boards. Instead, it seems YOU are suppressing information. Look at how many posts you have blocked. You are clearly afraid of having facts on your board because it doesn’t not support your narrative.
It is funny how you think disagreeing with you is considered suppression, yet you banning posts is not suppression.
You don’t run the boards. But you disrupt the conversations held at them with abusive posting. We all have a Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold urge residing within us. It’s been causing bull markets and economic collapses so long as there has been a stock market. So people start out with sympathy for the Buy-and-Hold case. And you make it unpleasant for them to ask the questions that they need to ask. And the Normals don’t possess one-tenth of the determination to participate in the discussions as you possess to stomp them out. So we are where we are.
As a nation of people, we are making progress. We are close. We have 44 years of peer-reviewed research showing that valuations affect long-term returns. I think we will eventually make it to the other side and no one is going to want to return to the Buy-and-Hold says once we do. We’ll see.
My best wishes.
Rob
It is funny how you think disagreeing with you is considered suppression, yet you banning posts is not suppression.
The rules against abusive posting are there to permit fruitful discussions to take place. We need those rules. They serve an important purpose.
My sincere take.
Rob
You said suppression. Now you say disrupt. To you, disagreeing is disruption. Or when we point out the failure in your predictions is also disruption. Or when we push back on you calling Jack Bogle a conman as being disruption. Or when we tell you that is was a mistake to quit your job when you only had $400k in savings…..that is disruption as well.
How about death threats? Is that disruption?
How about demands for unjustified board bannings?
How about acts of extortion aimed at intimidation of academic researchers?
I pointed out the error in the Greaney retirement study on the morning of May 13, 2002 (it lacks a valuation adjustment). It hasn’t been corrected to this day, Please explain.
Rob
We’re coming up on the 23rd anniversary of that discussion board post that only you remember or care about. In that time you could have started pushing shopping carts and moved all the way up to Store Manager at Walmart, and retired wealthy.
Yeah, yeah.
Rob
Death threats? The only one we have seen so far is the one you made. We have been waiting for you to post a link to an actual death threat and the only thing you could come up with was a discussion that several people were having about fire arm safety and personal protection. You were not even discussed or involved in that thread.
Unjustified board bannings? They were completely justified. You refuse to answer questions. You hijack threads. You ignore the opinions of others. Meanwhile, you ban people all the time by deleting their posts. You want to be able to say what you want, but then not let others give their opinions.
Extortion and intimidation? That comes from you as well. Wade even commented about all the damage you caused him. He had no choice but to ignore you after everything you did to try and hurt him.
As for Greaney, we have explained to you thousands of time as to why you are wrong. This is just one of those examples of the bad behavior that has been pointed out. When you decide to ignore what others say, they you might was well be banned. People want to have a real discussion and not spend their time on the board with you telling everyone else as to how they have to think.
Okay, Anonymous.
I do wish you all the best that this life has to offer a person, in any event.
Rob