Uh-oh, the naive journalist has even more naive readers:
In response to my article on the financial mess, Goldblog reader Dan Simon writes in to explain the market’s recent follies.
I am not going to print the explanation here lest someone read it, but basically it claims that the pre-1980 stock market was a beacon of efficiency which – if I understand this correctly – always went up. However, since we started letting in the dregs of society – uninformed zombie investors who only buy indices – the self-regulating cycle has broken down because these numerous fools only buy and never sell (which begs the question, from whom are they actually buying?). And then there’s a dodgy appeal to the “fixed income” equity valuation model, in which index price and yield are inversely related, followed by absolutely no indication of 1) why there was a market crash or 2) thinking.
Somewhere, Dan Simon is swimming in his money bin and laughing. Relatedly, bonus points for knowing the title (Google is out of bounds).