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Friends —
On July 4, 2026, America turns 250.
To mark it, Meb wrote the book he wishes every investor had on their shelf:
Through wars, crashes, bubbles, pandemics, and political chaos, one truth has persisted: long-term investors in America have been rewarded.
$1 in U.S. stocks in 1799, left alone, would be worth roughly $200 million today. No day trading. No genius picks. Just ownership in the most productive economy the world has ever seen, left alone to compound.
Investing in America is a large-format hardcover that tells that story decade by decade — from the Buttonwood Agreement in 1792 to the age of AI. The kind of book you leave out on the coffee table, flip open, and can't put down.
Inside:
Hundreds of charts, tables, and archival photographs
Quotes from Buffett, Munger, Howard Marks, Peter Lynch, J. Paul Getty, and others
A chapter for every decade from 1800 to 2020 — the events, the psychology, the crises, the breakthroughs
Sidebars on what they don't teach you: why you must reinvest dividends, why most millionaires are self-made, why the biggest stock every decade is rarely the same one
Out July 4, 2026.