DISQUS

Bob Rodkin · 1 year ago

Well said Andrew. Very well!

Bob

rob lieving · 1 year ago

This is not a great post for the CEO of Phanfare. I urge you to take it down.

Maybe you could start another blog to post your political and economic views. I am not commenting either way on what you said. I am not saying you are right or wrong.

However, the Phanfare blog is not the place to be making such comments. It risks alienating customers.

Robert Wilkins · 1 year ago

I agree totally with Rob, take down this post, while its ok for you to voice your opinion. Your post clearly demonstrate your lack of intelligence when it comes to economics, risk analysis and plain and simple consumer confidence.

What experience do you have with the markets, do you know what drives this economy, and how it affects GDP, look i dont want to get into it with you on your own blog, but it seems to me you are just like all the other talking heads on the TV and internet. You lack the qualifications to intellectually articulate what happened. People like me have worked in this business for 10 years but i still am not sure where everything went wrong.

On a final note, I doubt I will be buying your services, you just drove away a potential customer with your political rambling. Ignore the urge ramble off hearsay, focus on building your product, which i might add is good.

Just my thoughts.
Robert Wilkins

Andrew Erlichson · 1 year ago

I worked for a large fixed income money manager for two years and have a reasonable grasp of economics. That said, there might not be much benefit to Phanfare on me commenting publicly on what has essentially become a political issue. Half of people are likely to disagree with you. Point taken.

Susannah Chen · 1 year ago

Andrew, I agree with Rob Lieving and Robert Wilkins - can you please refrain from this type of commentary on the phanfare blog. I currently eke out a living in financial services, but if things keep up, we might not even be able to afford cable and internet, never mind photo/video hosting. Whether your opinion is right or wrong, it's just too close to home. We love phanfare's services, but we don't visit the site for this type of commentary.

Andrew Erlichson · 1 year ago

Sorry to hear you have been swept up. Obviously, most individuals working in the financial community did nothing wrong and were faithfully executing the responsibilities of their jobs.

I can refrain from political and economic blogging.

Brian Stringfellow · 1 year ago

I was able to tell by the subject of the post and assured by the end of the first sentence of the nature of the commentary, but I chose to read it, found it interesting, and agreed for the most part. I had two economics courses in college and left it at that so I know very little here, but took an interest in one person's opinion. My first thought was, wow that's different, nothing about the website and shrugged my shoulders.

As someone who gets irritated easily sometimes, I found it surprising to see the negative reaction. I got less backlash from my political commentary in the PF forum about 6 months ago. :-) Andrew, what did you think of that election? whew! ;-) jk