What if the greatest investment in history wasn’t a stock… but a country?
On July 4th, 2026, America turns 250 years old. To mark it, I’ve written the book I wish every investor had on their shelf.
A generation of young investors is learning about markets through the casino — meme stocks, zero-day options, screens full of green and red arrows designed to hijack their dopamine. The real story is better than any of that.
Through wars, crashes, bubbles, pandemics, and political chaos, one truth has persisted:
Long-term investors in America have been rewarded.
Investing in America: The Rise of a 250-Year Bull Market is a large-format hardcover that tells the story of the U.S. stock market decade by decade — from the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 to the age of AI. It’s packed with charts, photography, investor quotes, and sidebars. The kind of book you leave out on the coffee table, flip open, and can’t put down.
The First Rule
If you had put $1 in U.S. stocks in 1799 and simply left it alone, your great-great-great-great-great-grandkids would be sitting on roughly $200 million today.
No day trading. No genius stock picks. Just ownership in the most productive economy the world has ever seen, left alone to compound for a long time.
What’s Inside
This is not a typical investing book. It’s a visual journey through American financial history, starting in the 1700s and running through today.
The book includes:
- Hundreds of charts, tables and archival photographs
- Quotes from Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, Howard Marks, Peter Lynch, J. Paul Getty, and others
- Sidebars on the stuff they don’t teach you, including:
- You must reinvest dividends
- Most millionaires are self-made
- The biggest stock every decade is rarely the same one
Each decade from 1800 to 2020 gets its own chapter — covering the key events, the investor psychology, the crises, and the breakthroughs. Every chapter closes with the actual stock market returns of that decade and what the next 10 and 50 years looked like for anyone who stayed invested.
Coming July 4, 2026
J.P. Morgan said it in 1895, and it could be the whole book’s epigraph:
Thanks for following all these years — I can’t wait for you to read it.
