Why US remains top choice for entrepreneurs and companies

Jane Fraser, DBE's op-ed resonates: While Americans often focus on the challenges we face, much of the world consistently puts its trust in our financial system. That trust is based on more than the size of our economy and the depth of our capital markets. It reflects the strength of the people and institutions behind them, and their ability to adapt, evolve, and create opportunity through periods of change and uncertainty. America's advantage is not that it avoids challenges; it's that we embrace them.

The world may still be choosing America. But America must ensure its people are not passed over by the prosperity their work helped create. American workers, engineers, researchers and consumers have contributed to the knowledge, infrastructure and quality of goods and services that continue attracting global investment. That contribution warrants more than recognition. It warrants the right to scrutinize the labor, political and economic systems determining who participates in the resulting wealth. Foreign investment and technological leadership can strengthen the nation. But rising corporate valuations do not automatically produce stronger wages, durable careers, broader ownership or economic security for American households. The real measure of American success is not simply whether the world continues investing here. It is whether the people who helped build, operate and sustain that value continue sharing in it. Innovation without economic participation can create national strength alongside household insecurity. America should welcome investment, competition and technological advancement. It must also govern the transition so that productivity gains expand opportunity instead of concentrating rewards while displacing the people responsible for producing them. The world choosing America is a powerful advantage. Ensuring America continues choosing its people is the responsibility that comes with it. #AmericanInnovation #FutureOfWork #EconomicParticipation #HumanContinuity #WorkforceTransformation #AIGovernance #OperationalGovernance

Jane’s latest op-ed is a reminder that America's enduring advantage isn't just our capital markets, it's our ability to invest in talent. The idea that: "Perhaps the most distinctive advantage of the American model is not that it avoids failure, but its ability to adapt, reform, and continue creating opportunity."  That’s how I think about my team’s work centered on our culture of innovation and our ability to turn ideas into development and growth.   I encourage you to read it. It's a thoughtful perspective on what continues to make America a magnet for investment and innovation, and why talent remains at the center of that story.  

Absolutely correct. Jane is the CEO of one of the largest banks in the world operating in 90 countries with $2.8 trillion in assets. She sees the world through a global lens and is spot on. The US continues to be the best economy in the World. Many countries and entrepreneurs have committed staggering sums of investment in the US, with more to come. The US is experiencing a massive and unprecedented building boom unlike anything we’ve seen in decades. Go Team USA🇺🇸

Wonderful insights from Citi’s Jane Fraser on the capabilities of the American economy and why businesses, governments, and investors around the world continue to work on how to gain greater access to it. The strength and resiliency of our financial system is bolstered by healthy competition between banks that allows for immense access and choice for American consumers. #banking #economy #competition

  You don’t compete with China by staring at it like a rabbit caught in the headlights. I’ve just spent some time in China, and one of the things that impressed me most was the sheer amount of entrepreneurship I encountered. In Hong Kong, I met a Chinese entrepreneur who had decided to build shipyards. Only before the meeting did I realise what he had already achieved: he had built one of China’s largest online retailers, starting from very modest circumstances. What struck me was not only his success story. It was the fact that, after achieving so much, he still has the energy and ambition to ask: What else can I build? That entrepreneurial spirit is something I’ve also seen during my visit to XCMG. I had visited the company before, and the development over the past two years was remarkable. The company has continued to expand, invest and improve its operations. And this is where I think we need to be careful in Europe. There are very legitimate reasons to be critical of China. When Chinese companies benefit from massive state subsidies and unfair trade practices — as we have seen in the solar industry — I believe Europe needs to respond. Germany and the EU made serious mistakes here. But if our response is simply to look at China with fear, we risk becoming the rabbit in the headlights. We see the speed. We see the scale. We see the investment. And we freeze. That won’t help us compete. We need to look at what is happening here with clear eyes. Challenge unfair competition where necessary. But at the same time, learn from what Chinese companies are doing well: their speed, their willingness to invest, their decisiveness and their entrepreneurial ambition. We don’t need to copy China. But we should stop staring at the headlights. We should look at what is happening, understand why it works, use our strength, our market experience and our innovation potential — and then decide what we need to do differently ourselves. Maybe we should simply travel to China more often, visit the companies and talk to the people building them. Because only when we stop being afraid of what we see can we start learning from it. (Visual was created with AI)

🇺🇸 I thoroughly enjoyed reading Jane Fraser’s recent TIME article, "Why the World Is Still Investing in America." Her message is both timely and important: despite periodic doubts and challenges, America’s enduring strengths, innovation, deep capital markets, entrepreneurial spirit, and ability to adapt continue to attract investment and opportunity from around the world. 💪 What resonated most with me was her reminder that it is rarely wise to bet against America. The nation's greatest strength has never been perfection. It has been the ability to evolve, reform, innovate, and continually build something better. 📜As a student of history, I was also struck by a familiar theme. Since the founding of our nation, some of America’s most passionate champions have come from abroad. An Englishman, Thomas Paine helped inspire the American Revolution. Alexander Hamilton, the son of a Scottish immigrant born in the British West Indies, became one of the principal architects of America’s financial system. And today, Jane Fraser, born in Scotland and now leading one of America’s most important financial institutions, offers a compelling reminder of the opportunities America continues to create and the confidence it inspires around the world. 🗽 Sometimes America’s greatest proponents are not those born here, but those who chose to believe in its promise. Their outside perspective often helps remind us of what makes the American experiment so exceptional.

Great to see more people jumping on the bandwagon, and this post by Anthony Pompliano is worth reading. As I keep saying . . . We are living in a world that embodies our Industrial Transformation & Supply Chain Technology investment thesis at REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund: Escalating Geopolitical Tensions & Great Power Competition; The Climate Crisis & Severe Weather; Disease Outbreaks & Pandemics; Consumer Behavior & Demographics. OUR INVESTMENT THESIS: REFASHIOND Ventures: The Industrial Transformation Fund invests in early stage startups refashioning legacy industries through Data & AI, Advanced Materials, Advanced Manufacturing, & Next Generation Supply Chains; Defensible through economic moats. Join us; Our ambitions are OBSCENE & BODERLINE INAPPROPRIATE. #IndustrialTransformation #SupplyChain #Innovation #Technology #Startups #VentureCapital

While conversations in the U.S. sometimes focus on volatility and decline, the world isn’t selling us short – and neither should we. As Jane Fraser, DBE highlights in her recent op-ed, global companies, governments and investors are actively choosing the U.S. financial system, seeking greater access to the deep, liquid and dynamic markets. This is a timely reminder that the U.S financial system is the envy of the world. At the heart of this power lies the world’s most competitive banking sector—made up of public and private institutions that have been tested and strengthened over generations. It’s a model that doesn’t avoid failure but instead adapts and continues to create opportunities for everyone. This system allows capital to move at a scale and speed found nowhere else, empowers entrepreneurs from startup to IPO, fuels critical innovation in areas like AI and energy, and ultimately amplifies U.S leadership on the global stage. Read more in Jane’s op-ed. https://lnkd.in/eDuiUkYB