Popping out of the Nice Monetary Disaster there was this working narrative that the USA economic system was the cleanest soiled shirt within the laundry hamper.
Sure, our financial restoration was tepid however the remainder of the world was a multitude.
The European Union was falling aside. Rising markets have been in disarray. China appeared prefer it needed to place up a combat for our financial seat on the throne however by no means made a severe try to displace the mighty king.
The U.S. has led the best way popping out of the pandemic as nicely however this time we’re not simply successful as a result of everybody else is dropping.
The US is dominating the remainder of the world, financially talking.
Axios laid out 2023 financial progress together with the 2024 projections:
The U.S. had increased progress than its nearest rivals in 2023 and appears prefer it ought to do the identical this yr.
Goldman Sachs has a breakdown of financial dimension by nominal GDP:
China is closing in, however the truth that they’ve 1.4 billion folks to our inhabitants of 330 million makes the scale of our economic system much more spectacular.
Whereas China is shut by way of GDP, no different nation is in the identical ballpark with regards to the scale of our inventory and bond markets:
The US has many benefits over the remainder of the world — the worldwide reserve foreign money, pleasant neighbors to the north and south, plentiful pure sources, navy energy, oceans on two of our coastlines, and many others.
However the sheer dimension, breadth and liquidity we’ve in our monetary markets is an enormous benefit with regards to commerce, innovation, entrepreneurship and wealth-building.
It’s type of superb how the U.S. has solely prolonged its lead with regards to the capitalization of monetary markets regardless of widespread globalization.
I seemed on the largest holdings for the Vanguard Complete World Inventory Market Index Fund. Twenty-one out of the highest 25 holdings are primarily based within the U.S. The 13 largest corporations within the index are all primarily based within the U.S.1
U.S. shares make up slightly greater than 60% of the whole world index.
Placing all of it collectively, right here’s a God Bless America Venn diagram from Goldman:
We even have probably the most favorable demographics of any developed nation on the planet going ahead:
China is in enormous bother on this entrance.
One of the crucial stunning management developments for the U.S. is on the vitality entrance.
This comes from a latest piece within the Washington Publish:
Oil, pure fuel, renewables — manufacturing of almost each main supply of vitality has lately touched all-time highs. In truth, manufacturing of every has roughly doubled since 2000.
To place this in perspective, the USA is producing extra oil than every other nation in historical past.
That sounds fairly good to me. Take a look at these all-time highs:
I don’t wish to leap the gun right here, however we’re now basically energy-independent or near it.
Do we’ve issues on this nation? After all we do. And we at all times will.
I might record off all of our points however you already know them since you’re inundated with fixed negativity on the information, Web and social media day by day.
Everybody lately focuses virtually completely on the negatives as a result of it causes a response.
However if you happen to take a step again from the fixed deluge of pessimism, there may be loads of good happening in the USA of America.
It’s a disgrace so many individuals are blind to the positives proper now.
They are saying the winners write the historical past books.
Some folks level to survivorship bias when wanting on the progress in financial output and monetary markets in the USA over the previous 100 years or so.
I can’t assure that very same degree of output from right here.
However I’m pretty assured the U.S. can be one of many authors of the historical past books going ahead as nicely.
I stay bullish on my nation.
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1Taiwan Semiconductor is the 14th, making it the biggest overseas firm within the complete world index.
