As America turns 250, this is why I am more optimistic than ever

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Editor’s note: July 4th marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States – and Louis Navellier He thinks it’s worth celebrating as an investor, not just an American. Lewis has been on the market for nearly 50 years. He has watched this country go through wars, recessions, high inflation, and bear markets. He reaches the same conclusion every time: America is adapting, recovering, and moving upward.

In today’s article, Lewis explains why the current moment—the AI ​​boom, rising profits, and the exuberance that continues to shock foreign visitors—makes him as optimistic as ever. It also refers to A collection of AI-related stocks He believes it could rise by 100% or more in the next six to twelve months.

From all of us in Investor locationHave a wonderful fourth. Now, take it away, Louis…

In September 1989, Boris Yeltsin came to America.

At the time, he was a rising political figure within the Soviet Union – a reformer who was beginning to question the system he had spent his life serving. He later became the first president of Russia.

The trip was part diplomacy, part public relations, and part fact-finding mission. Yeltsin toured the country, met officials, and saw a polished version of American power.

But the moment that sticks with him didn’t happen in Washington, D.C

It happened at a grocery store in suburban Houston.

After visiting NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Yeltsin and his entourage made an unscheduled stop at a Randall’s supermarket. The visit only lasted about 20 minutes, but it left a deep impression.

Saw the meat counter. Product. Frozen foods. Endless shelves. Choices. The sheer abundance of ordinary American life.

This was not the village of Potemkin. It was not a private store for the privileged elite or a dog and pony show for foreign visitors.

It was a supermarket where ordinary Americans bought milk, bread, beef, and grains.

One of Yeltsin’s aides later said that the last vestiges of Bolshevism collapsed inside him after that visit.

In hindsight, that grocery store visit seems like a small scene in a much larger breakdown.

Two months later, the Berlin Wall finally fell.

Not long afterward, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, and the Soviet hammer-and-sickle flag was lowered over the Kremlin for the last time.

World Cup visitors have their own Yeltsin moments

For decades, some of the smartest people in the world believed that the Soviet Union might catch up with America. Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson even predicted that the Soviet Union could reach economic parity with the United States by the late 1980s or 1990s.

The experts had their models. All Yeltsin needed was a grocery store.

Fast forward to today, something similar is happening.

As the World Cup brought fans from around the world to the United States, social media was filled with videos of foreign visitors enjoying their own “Yeltsin moments.”

Only this time, it’s European soccer fans walking into a Bucs restaurant and trying to get around a gas station with 100 pumps, clean bathrooms, barbecue sandwiches, and acres of snacks.

It’s visitors who wander past Bass Pro Shops and realize that what Americans call a “shop” can include boats, aquariums, waterfalls, fishing gear and enough outdoor gear to outfit a small army.

It’s people posting videos of Chick-fil-A sandwiches served by polite young workers and American suburbs filled with homes that look huge compared to what many people abroad are used to.

Some of this is funny. Some of it is culture shock. But there is a dangerous point underneath.

Many of these visitors were sold a very different story about America. They are told that this country is broken, angry, poor, dangerous, and broken. Then they get here, visit our restaurants, walk into our stores, drive through our suburbs, and see the truth with their own eyes.

America is not perfect. Far from it. We have a lot of things to fix.

But the story many people tell about America is a lie. Sadly, a lot of Americans bought it too. They are told every day that their neighbors hate them, that the country is hopelessly divided, and that the American dream is dead.

I don’t believe it for a second.

We are not as divided as the media makes us seem. We are not as weak as our critics would have us believe.

The advantage of the American investor: owning the growth machine

America’s daily abundance continues to shock people who did not grow up with it, because this abundance is no mere coincidence. It is the result of a system that has spent 250 years rewarding risk-taking, competition, creativity, capital formation, and entrepreneurship.

That’s why I love this country. That’s why I love being an American investor.

We don’t just live within this system. We get to own pieces of it.

The United States is home to about 4% of the world’s population, yet we account for more than 26% of the world’s GDP. Even more impressive is that America accounts for about 43% of the world’s total stock market value.

We have the deepest, most dynamic, and most valuable stock market on Earth.

Our companies are building the next generation of microchips, data centers, energy systems, software, medical discovery, defense technology, robotics, logistics networks, and financial platforms.

You can’t just watch America’s growth machine from the sidelines, people. You can own a share in it.

And for a long period of US history, this was one of the smartest things you could do.

Yes, there have been scary times: wars, recessions, inflation, bear markets, banking crises, terrorist attacks, and pandemics. Every generation has its own reasons to believe that the American growth story is over.

But time and again America adapts, recovers, and moves upward.

This is why, in the long term, you can buy dips in America. a period.

When the best companies in the United States collapse due to fear, headlines, or temporary profit-taking, history says those moments can create some of the best buying opportunities you will ever see.