There is an "Elephant in the room" for many respected posters and Agoracom needs to address it. That elephant is the recent propensity to want to relegate anything other than pure geology to the Off-Topic board. Essentially, that reduces all non-geos to second class citizens, at a time when there are many pros who can make valuable "handholding" contributions to the Board. When these folks don't feel appreciated, they simply vote with their feet, rather than appear to be political venters or prima donnas on the OT forum. While posts about the relevant general economy, for example, need to be related by their authors to NOT's situation (if it not self-evident) those posts can be quite valuable to shareholders comfort if they are objective and properly crafted. For example, a debate over whether the US will ultimately opt for extremely low growth/isolationism or whether they look to slightly higher growth/inflation/trade levels is key to whether NOT will have the economic backdrop for a viable business model in the next several years. If you do not like this post, please do not criticize it, just send it to the Chief Equity Strategist at your advisor/broker and ask him if it is relevant to your nest egg (NOT). Without this broader debate, we can really get sucked in by being too close to micro value details.