You are overreacting ! I also welcome any other posters who wish to take over the role of providing counterbalancing financial information ... because as long as someone else points out the existance of that counterbalancing information I can be satisfied that the thread discussion is balanced and 'back away' from active involvement. This is precisely why I saw no need to have any 'last word' in the real estate thread.
As to 'balance' in alternative energy being discussed in this thread, your own businessweek link on the subject actually provides some element of balance ... at least it does if you are able to read between the lines --> "Renewable energy is booming. The use of solar power has been growing by more than 30% a year and, except for a hiccup in 2004 -- when Congress delayed renewing a tax credit -- so has wind power. " Obviously the emphasis I chose to provide was a bit different than your own choice of emphasis. Between us, both perspectives have now been emphasized !
PS for the record, I have never requested that Pryce ban anybody from StripperWeb for any reason. I also bend over backwards to avoid having to delete any Dollar Den posts - the only times I have been forced to do this is when the content of particular posts has bordered on the illegal i.e. requests for tax evasion advice.
Also, if you check through older Dollar Den threads, you'll find that there are lots of topics where various posters disagree with my personal take on a financial situation. You'll also find that we were able to carry on a respectful discussion, 'agreeing to disagree' as it were, without anybody resorting to personal attacks.
As to my 'following you around', from a personal standpoint it doesn't matter to me one way or another what you choose to invest in. I also understand that you are financially savvy and are able to pick 'winners' out of the real estate and alternative energy markets to choose two recent examples. However, there are also 1000 other Dollar Den posters/readers, many of which don't have anywhere near your amount of financial savvy at this point in their lives. Thus when you post about your own particular winning investments in highly volatile market segments like real estate and alternative energy, markets where an 'amateur' investor likely stands a 90% chance of taking a beating because they will not have your financial savvy to allow them to realize/assess the actual risks of one housing market vs another, or one alternative energy company versus another, in fairness to them somebody here needs to point this out.
If nobody does so, then your own success stories in highly volatile markets could encourage 'amateur' investors to blindly enter those same markets, but with a much lower probability of coming out a winner. As moderator, I feel I need to insure that 'amateur' investors are presented with balanced information, and when nobody else provides that information the task winds up falling to me.



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