TG, welcome back! I don’t know if you realize that your comment on piggington’s evolution is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
If you, AN and many others who are more obsessed with objective data don’t visit this site, then naturally, it will be occupied by people who are more willing to share their opinions and force it onto others.
The reason that politics is of particular interests is that it is mostly opinions, aided by the news cycle.
Therefore, I disagree that it was due to the fact real estate market has become boring. You first left the site because you already got your house and many other followed after 08. If the data nerds are still here, surely we can discuss many other topics for financial market in general. You can clearly see that Rich has never ran out of topics to write in his investment blogs.
But if none of the Rich type analytical people are here, what do you expect?