Regardless of who wrote that or what their motivations are, I assume the comments on PS’s web site that bear her name are an accurate reflection of her point of view.
I think Rich lets his work speak for him instead of the other way around, and I appreciate that. He seems to lay all the information he comes across out there and allows it to take it’s own form, even though some of the datapoints may conflict at times with the overall trends. BTW, that is the way the data behaves out in the real world – sometimes it’s more consistent than others. A lot of why I find Rich’s work credible is because when it’s inconsistent or inconclusive, he says so. He doesn’t try to jam every little square piece into the round hole for the express purposes of calling it all round.
As for him not using his every waking moment to run down every lead and pursue every story that comes to his attention, that’s not very difficult to understand. He isn’t running a pay site, this isn’t a business for him, and Piggington’s was never intended to be anything other than a blog or casual forum. We SHOULD have different expectations for a site like Piggington’s than we would for a site purporting to provide investment guidance or which is oriented to providing a professional service.
I’m here because of his work, not because of his personality or because I think he’s cute (although I’m sure some people do consider him to epitomize the image of a Greek God).
The only time I remember Rich getting involved in the user forums was on a couple occasions in the meetup threads and once to threaten to regulate the close quarters combat that was going on at the time between PS and her loyal opposition.
Who would have ever imagined Rich’s following would get big enough to have a vocal fundamentalist splinter group?
