Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

You aren’t even part of society.

I’m not a Buy-and-Holder. That much would certainly be fair to say.

My best wishes to you, Anonymous.

Rob

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>We don’t need the details of the divorce. I think we can draw our own conclusions. Just curious to when this happened.</i>

I am not going to go into it.

I will tell you that the first time that there was an issue was the morning of May 17, 2002. It was late the night before when I advanced my apology post. I told her the story. She stiffened. She did not like hearing about the Goon attacks. People do not like that stuff. It is poison. We will have to decide as a nation of people what to do about it.

Rob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

Your wife: You don’t listen
Your priest: You don’t listen
WadePfau: You don’t listen
Robert Shiller: You don’t listen
The rest of the investment community: You don’t listen

Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research showsing that valuations affect long-term returns: You don’t listen

A CAPE value of 28: You don’t listen

Thousands of our fellow community members expressing a desire that honest posting be permitted: You don’t listen

The Bennett/Pfau research showing that market timing is 70 percent of what it takes to achieve long-term stock investing success: You don’t listen

Common sense, which tells us that there is nothing on this planet avaiable for purcahse that is worth buying at any price: You don’t listen

150 years of stock market history, which is the source material for both Shiller’s research and the Bennett/Pfau research: You don’t listen

Your own behavior showing that the Buy-and-Hold case is such a desperate one that it cannot be defending without death threats and acts of extortion: You don’t listen

Bill Bernsteins book in which even a long-time Buy-and-Holder says that the safe withdrawal rate was 2 percent at the top of the bubble: You don’t listen

The published rules of every site at which you post, which prohibit the behavior that you have employed to suppress discussion on the last 41 years of peer-reviewed research and that show that we are fundamentally a good people who will in time figure out way to permit discussion of the peer-reviewed research — You don’t listen

Books like “The Grapes of Wrath,” which examine in some depth the ocean of human misery the always results from the widespread promotion of the pure Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold “strategy — You don’t listen

Evidence-Based Investing, a general in Greaney’s Goon army, who has now acknowledged in several comments that the Greanet retirement study lacks an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins — You don’t listen

The deafening silence of Greaney himself in the wake of Evidence’s posts, suggesting strongly that Greaney himself does not know how to make a case that his study does contain a valuation adjustment — You don’t listen

The laws of the United States that make it a felony to advance death threats or to engage in acts of extortion — You don’t listen

Your conscience, which tells you that errors in retirement studies should be corrected within 24 hours of the moment they are discovered — You don’t listen

My ex-wife and my priest and Wade Pfau and Robert Shiller all live in the same country that I do. They all want the same things that I do. They will all be arguing in opposition to the pure Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold strategy in the days following the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis. By posting honestly today, I assure that I will be able to sleep at night and that I will be able to look all of those people in the eye in the days following the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis. Can you say the same?

Rob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“ Good one, Anonymous. Didn’t Jesus say that a man must lose his life in order to gain it? Maybe I took that one a little too literally.”

Jesus didn’t tell you to abandon your marriage. In fact, you are commanded to care and provide for your wife ( now ex-wife). You didn’t.

Jesus was tricky. Wasn’t there something in the Sermon on the Mount about how “Those who report the safe withdrawal rate inaccurately will surely perish”?

That’s how I remember it, anyway.

Rob

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 feel great anguish over that issue. It is something that I have thought about every day of my life for 20 years running now.”

So you have left your family in this situation and know that, yet you have done nothing about getting a job when you have more than enough hours in the day to work a job and still do all the rest of what you want to do. You haven’t given any excuse for that which any sane person would agree with.

I’ll have enough time for both once the book is finished. Until then, it would be wrong to take time away from the book just to bring in money. Bringing in money helps me and a small number of others. Opening every site on the internet to honest posting re the past 41 years of peer-reviewed research helps and protects millions and millions of people.

I wish there were five of me, you know? That would make things easy. There’s only one of me, just like with everybody else. I didn’t ask to get pulled into this thing. It’s something that happened to me. Who would think that making a simple observation thst a retirement study posted at some guy’s web site lacks a valuation adjustment would bring on a 20-year smear campaign? If that is what life presents to you, you have to figure out how to respond to it. Somehow I don’t believe that the right response is to pretend that that is in any way, shape or form normal. That’s extremely weird stuff. That tells me that I have a tiger by the tale re this one.

It’s not even just you Goons. How about all of the Normals who tolerate the behavior of you Goons? That’s the bigger issue. That tells us that we ALL have that Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold urge residing within us. We had better get about the business of learning about it and figuring out how best to cope with it! Otherwise, it could kill us as a society. How the stock market works is not some trivial matter. It’s important. We have the safety of our retirements riding on it. The last 41 years of peer-reviewed research is trying to tell us something. We very much need to pay attention. I am proud to be able to say that I have been trying to get us all to pay more attention for 20 years running.

You cannot speak for all sane people, Anonymous. You are a freakin’ internet Goon! I mean, please give me a freakin’ break. It’s true that most people are improperly complacent re these matters. I’ll give you that one. But will that remain the case in the days following the next Buy-and-Hold Crisis? I do not think so. I think that a good number of people are going to look at the ocean of human misery and regret not having taken effective action sometime over the prior 41 years. I think we are as a society on the thresdhold of some amazing breakthrough advances. I sure hope so.

My best and warmest wishes to you and yours, in any event, Mr. Sane Buy-and-Hold Goon Person.

Rob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“ They make up about 10 percent of the investing population. ”

A totally made up number. But like everything, you just pull things out of the air with no facts to back it up.

http://www.passionsaving.com/investing-discussion-boards.htmlRob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“ They make up about 10 percent of the investing population. ”

A totally made up number. But like everything, you just pull things out of the air with no facts to back it up.

Investing Discussion Boards Ban Honest Posting on Valuations!

Rob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

You lie in every post.  Take the last one, for example.  Your opinion on what one guy said does not constitute 41 years of peer reviewed research.

Okay, Anonymous.

Rob

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

You are sick.  You need to get help.

Because I sincerely believe that the retirement study posted at John Greaney’s web site lacks an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins and because after three years I worked up the courage to say so because I saw the damage that failing to say so was doing to the board community.

Rob

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 think it will happen, Anonymous. But we will just have to wait and see.”

It has been 20 years and you are now 65 years old. It’s too late. Money is not going to drop out of the sky. You need money now.

Woe is me. What a predicklement.

Rob