carlisle, this is the post to which you are referring. I took it seriously, since it came from Merrill Lynch. Well, shoot me for believing Merrill Lynch!
Then FormerSanDiegan posted a chart going back for several decades, and it shows the correlation did not exist back then. So I thanked him for that.
So where is my bias? This Merrill Lynch-originated homebuilder/stock market chart made the internet rounds, and unfortunately some people posted only the data since 1995 without explaining that the prior years were exluded because the correlation was low. It was up to any of us, you included, to show that it did not go back far enough, and that there is a greater correlation between the index and housing since 1995. It’s too bad that nobody has made any theories as to why housing is the economy since 1995, and not before.
I post the stories that I like or that are interesting, and you can post the stories you like. In that vein, I would love to see some posts from you. What kind of articles strike your fancy, what do you consider worthy of posting, what kind of bias will you show in your posts?
I get bored reading my own stuff, and would love to read posts started by people who disagree with me! That is how we can get more diversity here. Don’t just wait for me to entertain you with my writing, and then complain about the content. Step up and start your own thread!
