It’s far too often that we see doom and gloom articles about the world being over or that some Western country is about to collapse to zero and be eaten by Crows.
Let’s talk USA, one of the only economies in the world you can actually long-term benefit from without actually setting foot there.
Take Apple or Tesla — two names any remote investor could have bought from anywhere. If you dropped money into $AAPL back in 2010, you’re sitting on roughly 1,300%+ total return through mid-2026 (compounded around 30% annualized over the last decade alone).
Tesla? Even wilder, a $1,000 investment in 2010 turned into over $280,000 today, with compounded returns north of 40% annualized in many rolling periods. That’s real wealth creation, not theory. Same story with millionaires.
The US added hundreds of thousands of new millionaires year after year. By 2025, America was home to roughly 24 million millionaires, about 40% of the entire world’s total. While the rest of the globe grew, the US created millionaires at a pace the world simply couldn’t match.
Over the past decade-plus, America’s millionaire population exploded far faster than almost anywhere else. And you don’t even need to live there to ride the wave. Thousands of online businesses, Shopify stores, Amazon FBA operators, and remote hedge fund structures (many domiciled in Singapore, Dubai, Estonia, or plain old Delaware LLCs) have exploded by selling into the US consumer or investing in US markets.
US e-commerce alone has grown over 400-500% since 2010, with online retail share jumping from under 5% to north of 16-20% of total sales.
Hedge fund assets globally ballooned, but the US remains the beating heart — driving the majority of global AUM growth and opportunity.
Bottom line: the USA is still the best wealth-creation machine on the planet. You can participate fully from your laptop, in any timezone, without ever needing a visa.The doom posters will keep screaming.
I’ll keep positioning for the upside.
Yours forever,
Heavens Banker