Before the obligatory /r/ShitAmericansSay, I'm British and live in the UK. Now that's out the way let's begin.
- the USD is a super strong world reserve currency.
- Most of the major tech companies in the world are American.
- US companies are global rather than regional which allows for massive growth.
- Startup culture in the US is highly encouraged and handsomely rewarded.
- The US is at the forefront of current and future industries (Space, AI, Pharma, FinTech, Robotics, Energy and more).
Of course there are very brief periods where the US market becomes over invested and there's a small period of time where other countries outperform the US but in the long run the US always wins. They have been winning the investing war since the 1900's and I don't expect it to change any time soon. In fact I expect it to get much much stronger.
Compare it to the UK for example where most tech companies remain private because we have dinosaur regulations that make it undesirable to go public. Seed money is hard to come by because investors prefer to invest in property over innovation. Any tech that we do actually create that's worth anything gets bought up by US companies. Combine this with a weak AF GBP / EUR currency and it makes investing in the US a no brainer.
I know a lot of people will disagree with this post but I'm open to different opinions on why people believe the US won't continue on their current path of pure technological dominance.
Just compare the charts of the US to the charts of the UK for example, it's astonishing how much the US indexes have grown compared to the UK.
tl;dr The US is an innovation behemoth with boundless talent while the rest of world is being left behind in the dust. Sure there are specific individual companies scattered about the world which do something specific better than the US but from an index investing point of view, no country beats the US and no country ever will. The US is a powerhouse of ambition, dedication, talent and money.
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