Looked at it. Is it also the longest and most comprehensive post ever in this forum?Totally agree. And let's not forget perhaps the greatest poster of all time Robert T. So incredibly knowledgeable, so non-confrontational, so helpful, and so humble. He is no longer around these parts for exactly these reasons and was selling nothing.
I’m neither a fan nor not a fan. As a layman who intellectually curious about the topic of finance I will say categorically having posters with serious academic backgrounds combined with serious industry experience makes the board a richer, more interesting place. Losing them makes the board more sterile and less interesting. Indeed many of the non-professional posters I found most interesting have more or less been driven away (willthrill81, Vineviz, HEDGEFUNDIE, etc.) through the board’s sometime Luddite-like intellectual nihilism. Never minding people like swedroe and apparently CA. I’m thankful Wbern and Rick Ferri still post.
And it’s not about deference. It’s about when a serious person makes a serious argument with logic and evidence to make a better counter argument than, “you’re wrong and just trying to make a buck.”
You yourself could barely go a couple posts without saying they were “talking their book.”
IMO, the greatest post in the history of Bogleheads. viewtopic.php?t=7353
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