The Forbes article which is linked above references James Mahaney, the guy who originally posted here on this topic. ( Folks with long memories will remember that he was taken to task for advocating a strategy that might have involved the use of annuities. At that time mention of annuities was banned from this board by a group of informal volunteer moderators.)
So why did "New Thinking" bother to show up here in the first place? He has a real job where he gets paid real money to write, and it would seem that he'd have no reason to waste that payroll time around here giving it away for free. Surely even Prudential can still cough up a living wage without peddling limited partnerships & annuities. I'm sure their "Serpent on the Rock" days are behind them forever now.
I'm thinking (this is not "new") that he was either encouraged to market his wares here or he was beta-testing audience response and focus-group queries. Research completed, mission accomplished, and he's outta here until we're needed for the next batch of free [-]guinea pigs[/-] reader reactions. Maybe someday he'll stop lurking and come clean with his motivations instead of depending on the ruminations of us do-it-yourselfers. Even Swedroe, Bernstein, & Ferri have discussed their products on discussion boards without appearing to be venially shilling.
However you, Ha, seem to go out of your way to twist the most innocuous & unrelated threads to reference the perceived flaws and faults of a group of people who actually cared enough to haul their assets up out of their back-seat-driver's chairs to attempt to provide a service to the board. They can point to their efforts and say "We volunteered, we tried, we did our share to make this board a better place." You, on the other hand, can point to... ?
You're either deeply unhappy with the situation that's obsessed you or you're trolling. In my opinion, either way you're not contributing-- you're just capering around in the back of the classroom looking to cause a ruckus and throwing spitballs when you think the teacher's not paying attention.
But hey, with your 5260-some posts I'd hate for you to feel that you're [-]an outspoken bully[/-] being bullied by outspoken posters.