My wife divorces me, takes the kids, I turn to alcohol, and then a life of crime, I get arrested, sent to jail, lose my faith, and shoot myself to end the pain. That's the plan, anyway.
[link] (31st paragraph)Canonical Hocomania at REHP
This site sprang from and contributes back to the Retire Early Home Page and its forums, the authoritative home of hocomania research and observation.
Hocomania resources at REHP:
- Rob Bennett (Passion Saving) irresponsible and a persistent liar?
- Urban Dictionary's Hocomania definitions contributed by REHP fans
- Hocomania Poll (poll no longer works)
- What is Hocomania?
- intercst's early retirement planning insights (parody) (parody of JWR's site)
- Vanguard Diehards Get Hocomania
- Book Review: Passion Saving, by Rob Bennett
- Dump & Wait Investing a sound retirement strategy?
- Passion Saving author Rob Bennett exposed as a fraud and sexual deviant
- Special Father's Day Edition
Do good fathers voluntarily place their kids in financial hardship? - Rob Bennett, Stock Predictor?
- Early Retirement Plan Failures
- Can Retiring Early Make You Crazy? forum category
Additional Links
Rob Bennett (hocus)
Bannings from message boards
Posters at REHP count the many times Mr. Bennett has been banned from message boards.
Book of Hook
This is probably the best example of hoco-mania anywhere on the internet. What could have taken one paragraph to ask how to set up a discussion board turns into a 12-paragraph rant on being banned from posting at the Motley Fool. John Greaney wrote this article about it with bolding to help the reader recognize the more delusional parts.
Death Threats?
A new poster at REHP, gw, asks for evidence of "death threats" made against Mr. Bennett.
Early retirement financial plan
On REHP, John Greaney (intercst), examines Mr. Bennett’s early retirement financial plan.
Greaney on Passion Saving: "You'll Have to Buy a Copy...Extraordinary!"
Mr. Bennett gives his reaction to John Greaney’s review of Mr. Bennett’s book Passion Saving. In a very long thread on REHP, several posters question Mr. Bennett’s motivation for pointing his blog readers to a very negative review.
More Lies from the Lunatic
On REHP, John Greaney (intercst), summarizes a very bizarre post made by Mr. Bennett and then deleted by Mr. Bennett.
Morningstar exposes Passion Saving author Rob Bennett as a fraud
In this article, John Greaney posts excerpts from Diehards conversation 49180.
passionsaving.com gets very bad reviews
A regular on REHP, arrete, asks for her name to be removed from Mr. Bennett's website. Instead of honoring what seems like a reasonable request, Mr. Bennett refuses.
Seven stages of hoco-mania
A regular on REHP, SG, describes his observation of Mr. Bennett’s posting behavior. Also interesting is that Mr. Bennett admits to deleting SG’s posts while Mr. Bennett was moderating a message board at nofeeboards.com.
Timeline
A regular on REHP, tashina, details Mr. Bennett’s biographical history.
William Bernstein at Diehards conversation 43158
In his first post at Diehards, Mr. Bennett discusses "safe" withdrawal rates with Mr. Bernstein. Mr. Bennett expands his views on SWR’s in post #27: