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

Funny how all the people you talk about are all financially successful, yet you are the only one broke.  Yet some you think people should take your advice.

Any financial issues I have experienced are because of abusive posting on the part of Buy-and-Holders. Buy-and-Holders obviously don’t have to deal with that problem.

Buy-and-Hold was developed in the 1960s. Shiller’s Nobel-price-winning research showing that valuations affect long-term returns hadn’t yet been published. You wouldn’t expect everyone to make the switch to the superior strategy in 24 hours. People need to have discussions and ask questions before they feel comfortable making the change. Because of the abusiveness of the Buy-and-Holders, that has never happened. We are stuck where we were prior to the publication of Shiller’s amazing research. To move forward (which benefits everyone!), we need to open every site to honest posting re the peer-reviewed research.

I think we will make it in time. I believe that we are a fundamentally good people. We have seen that even many Buy-and-Holders (people like Bernstein and Bogle before he died) see the merit of permitting honest posting.

Rob

I’ve posted Entry #719 to my weekly Valuation-Informed Indexing column at the Value Walk site. It’s called Irrational Exuberance Is a Silent Killer — Unless Someone Draws Attention to It, Life Goes On As If It Didn’t Exist.

Juicy Excerpt: What if we learned that the traffic lights on our roads don’t work and that a car might be heading at us at full speed from the other direction when the green light tells us that it is safe to roll on through the intersection? Those lights need to work. If the traffic lights are not working, it’s not safe to get on the road. I am sure. Driving without traffic lights makes no sense. Having one’s retirement money in stocks at a time when the CAPE value is 37 (where it stands today) is akin to driving at a time when the traffic lights aren’t working.

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

Except for this board, everyone else follows the laws and social norms.  You are widely banned and ignored.  Your wife dumped you. The problem is you and your behavior.   Until you learn that and fix your problems, nothing will ever change for you.

And the Greaney retirement srudy remains uncorrected 21 years after I publicly pointed out the error in it (it lacks an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins).

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:

It you add up all the viewers from each of those formats, it would easily be in the millions.  Even taking a more conservative number, it would still be in the hundreds of thousands and not just a handful of people.  Certainly with that large of a number, you can most often find a small percentage of people that will become a follower/believer in almost all cases.  Yet you don’t even have one single person that is willing to support you, despite you spending 20 years of your life creating an enormous footprint on the internet.  You clearly haven’t had an issue of getting your message out there.  It is simply a fact that you just don’t have people willing to support the message as you haven’t changed minds.  Thus, it is not a message exposure issue.  It is an acceptance (lack thereof) issue.

I’ve had 10 percent of the population of investors show intense interest in my ideas about stock investing at every discussion board at which I have posted. That’s been so going back to the first day. If the interest in Valuation-Informed Indexing were not super strong, you Goons would never have sought a ban on honest posting at even a single site. You see the last 42 years of peer-reviewed research as a huge threat to Buy-and-Hold because the last 42 years of peer-reviewed research IS a big threat to Buy-and-Hold. Valuation-Informed Indexing is the superior strategy. And it’s not even a remotely close call.

My sincere take.

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:

“If we were all thinking clearly, there would not be one person in the United States disagreeing with any of this.”

So only Rob Bennett thinks clearly and the rest of us are delusional idiots. Got it.

Today’s CAPE value is 31, Anonymous. What does that say about our ability to think clearly?

We’re trying to do better. Shiller’s book was a best-seller. He was awarded a Nobel prize for his amazing research. Thousands of our fellow community members have expressed a desire to see honest posting re the last 42 years of peer-reviewed research permitted at every site.

But we have obvuously not yet brought it all the way back home. A nation of people that is thinking clearly does not permit the CAPE value to reach 31. We should all be working together every day to bring that CAPE value down to a more reasonable level. It takes market timing/price discipline, you know?

My sincere take.

Rob

I’ve posted Entry #661 to my weekly Valuation-Informed Indexing column at the Value Walk site. It’s called Most People Don’t Appreciate How Important Market Timing Is Until They Think About It a Bit.

Juicy Excerpt: I love market timing. I believe that it always works. I believe that it should be heavily promoted. But I acknowledge that it is more than a little nuts that it works. It shouldn’t work. The market should be efficient, just like the Buy-and-Holders say. I believe that the Buy-and-Holders are wrong about an important element of the stock investing puzzle. But I acknowledge that what they say is logical (the problem is that investors are not logical but at times highly emotional).

I’ve posted Entry #627 to my weekly Valuation-Informed Indexing column at the Value Walk site. It’s called Investors Don’t Need to Change Their Stock Allocation Every Year But They Need to Consider the Possibility Every Year.

Juicy Excerpt: That said, I believe that we all should be thinking about market timing much more frequently than once every ten years. To engage in market timing goes against human nature. We all have a Get Rich Quick/Buy-and-Hold impulse residing within us. We want to believe that it’s possible to get something for nothing in the stock market and our brains go to work overtime trying to rationalize the unjustified irrational exuberance gains that we do experience.

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 want to be able to TALK ABOUT……..”

You had your chance. You ignore others, don’t answer questions, you refuse to provide evidence behind your criminal accusations, etc. in short, you misbehave. That is why you are banned. You are also discredited because your predictions have failed, your investment strategy has failed and you are broke.

You are the one that needs to say the words “I, Rob Bennett, have been wrong this whole time”. Unless you do that, you will sit here for your remaining days spewing the same garbage and the world will ignore you.

Okay, Anonymous.

I do wish you all good things regardless of what investment strategy you elect to follow, in any event.

My best and warmest wishes to you, old friend.

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:

“Now we just need to work out whether a valuation adjustment is required to calculate the safe withdrawal rate.”

If only there was someone who could put together a convincing argument that a valuation adjustment is required.

If valuations affect long-term returns, as Shiller showed in his Nobel-prize-winning research, then it’s a logical impossibility that the safe withdrawal rate is the same number at all valuation levels.

That’s my sincere take, in any event, Evidence.

I naturally wish you all good things.

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:

If you were paid even 5 cents, you would have been vastly overpaid for your contributions to the investing community.

Yeah yeah.

You say that because you are a Buy-and-Holder.

You don’t want to see people learning about the far-reaching implications of Shiller’s Nobel-prize-winning research. You are biased. And you are highly emotional re this subject.

My sincere take.

Rob