Comments on: What Is A Green Shoot? http://weakonomics.com/2009/06/25/what-is-a-green-shoot/ Everything That's Wrong With You And Your Money Sun, 14 Mar 2010 12:54:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Michael Jackson Dies- End of an Era Edition- Weekly Round Up | Financial Highway http://weakonomics.com/2009/06/25/what-is-a-green-shoot/comment-page-1/#comment-2540 Michael Jackson Dies- End of an Era Edition- Weekly Round Up | Financial Highway Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:27:18 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=2417#comment-2540 [...] The Weakonomist explains what Green Shoot is [...] [...] The Weakonomist explains what Green Shoot is [...]

]]> By: Rob Bennett http://weakonomics.com/2009/06/25/what-is-a-green-shoot/comment-page-1/#comment-2538 Rob Bennett Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:38:20 +0000 http://weakonomics.com/?p=2417#comment-2538 I believe that our problems are primarily emotional, that we came to believe in Passive Investing, that it doesn't work, and that we are not willing to let that in. A Green Shoot for me would be a showing that we are beginning to come to an acceptance of the realities (the academic literature has been showing for 28 years that valuation affect long-term returns). The mother of all Green Shoots would be John Bogle making a speech saying that he no longer believes in Passive Investing. Rob I believe that our problems are primarily emotional, that we came to believe in Passive Investing, that it doesn’t work, and that we are not willing to let that in. A Green Shoot for me would be a showing that we are beginning to come to an acceptance of the realities (the academic literature has been showing for 28 years that valuation affect long-term returns). The mother of all Green Shoots would be John Bogle making a speech saying that he no longer believes in Passive Investing.

Rob

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