The 242-Year Trade Mistake America Is Preparing to Reverse

In 1783, just months after the Revolution ended, the very first American merchants loaded ships with ginseng and sailed it to China. It was supposed to be a small but promising trade. Instead, it became the blueprint for a relationship that would tilt further and further out of balance.

Even then, China extracted more value than we did. And over the next two centuries, that pattern hardened into something far more consequential.

We sent capital and factories overseas – the very know-how that built the American middle class.

China responded by cornering 97% of the world’s rare earth processing, dominating lithium batteries and solar, and racing ahead in dozens of frontier technologies. 

Previously, this was a nation where you could once pay a year of your public-college tuition with just a few weeks’ pay. But now that contract has been smashed. 

Little by little, America – the most innovative nation in history – became dependent on a geopolitical rival for everything from smartphone components… to missile guidance systems… to the materials powering the AI revolution.

We are now a nation that cannot build many of its own critical defense systems without Chinese-controlled inputs.

Despite this, corporations are pouring billions into technologies that replace labor, not reward it … and the middle class is being squeezed from every direction. 

At the same time, stocks are hitting new highs. The top 1% has money to burn. AI millionaires and billionaires are being minted every day. 

If you’re not on the ownership side of this transition – if you’re not positioned in the companies powering it – you’re on the wrong side of history.

But get on the right side, and you’re on track for American Dream 2.0.

That’s the core message behind our American Dream 2.0 Summit. At 10 a.m. Eastern on Monday, December 8, I’ll join Louis Navellier and Eric Fry to explain why this next phase of capitalism could be brutal for workers… but absolutely transformational for prepared investors.

Before we get to that, though, in this report I want to…

• Show you why more than $11.3 trillion is flooding into America’s new industrial base – and why January 2 could send this trend vertical.
• Walk you through the four choke points where this money bottlenecks – and the kinds of small companies best positioned to harness it.
• Preview our new American Dream 2.0 Portfolio – and explain why we’ll reveal live the tiny Oklahoma company tied to the January 2 catalyst at our Summit.

Take a look…

The $11.3 Trillion Reshoring Tidal Wave No One’s Ready For

Behind the headlines, a stunning amount of money is already in motion.

Tech giants. Industrial titans. Drugmakers. Automakers. Even foreign governments.

All told, more than $11.3 trillion is earmarked to build out the physical backbone of a new American economy: data centers, semiconductor fabs, smart factories, logistics hubs, steel mills, auto plants, and more – on U.S. soil. 

This isn’t a press-release fantasy. It’s happening:

• Big Tech is racing to build out AI supercomputing campuses.
• Manufacturers are bringing production closer to home – not for patriotism, but for security and speed.
• Foreign sovereign wealth funds are quietly pledging trillions to participate in this “Made in America (Again)” reset.

After decades of offshoring factories, capital, and know-how to China – and watching that nation corner markets in rare earths, batteries, and solar – this $11.3 trillion wave is America’s effort to claw back control of critical industries and supply chains. 

It’s as much about national security as it is about economics.

The Washington Post recently described the capital pouring in as “the envy of the world.” 

At our Summit, Louis, Eric, and I will explain why that’s not hyperbole – and why is the day this slow-building trend could go vertical. That’s when a coordinated policy pivot is set to accelerate reshoring, infrastructure, and advanced energy all at once.

But here’s the twist almost no one is talking about…

This isn’t a “jobs boom.”

It’s an automation boom.