[AntiGuv]

Personal anecdotes do not bother me at all; I frequently enjoy reading personal anecdotes from my fellow freepers, especially when they involve good news.

What bothers me is personal anecdotes on the economy as if they are representative of anything besides themselves, when there are perfectly good statistics available from which to draw conclusions of general applicability.

Generalizing from personal anecdotes tends to divorce one from a proper perception of wider reality, and usually in the direction of one's biases.

[Coop]

I can't speak for you, but my 401K and other investments have done extremely well in the past year.

While you are of course entitled to your opinion, I think it's safe to say your argument really doesn't apply to my previous posts.