“The U.S. stock market will end up like Japan’s stock market: dead!”

Wrong!

You’ve heard,

“Don’t bet against the United States” or “The U.S. is the global epicenter of capitalism.”

Whenever I say the same things, some silly person always comes out of the woodwork and asks, “What about the Nikkei 225 stock index of Japan? After three decades, it still hasn’t reached its 1989 high! Huh? Huh!”. As if the investor in the U.S. isn’t making regular investments or dollar-cost…