7 out of 10 believe the Dream is dead

Many say hard work no longer leads to success. Here's why that belief is dangerous - and how to prove it false. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 

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Look, Alex doesn't make predictions like this lightly. This is the same investor who bought Apple at $1, Amazon at $1.57, and Netflix at $1.62 (all split-adjusted) before they dominated their industries. See what has Alex so convinced about this tiny company. - Nicole Labra, Senior Managing Editor THE SHORTEST WAY TO A RICH LIFE Seven in 10 Americans Believe the American Dream Is Dead Alexander Green, Chief Investment Strategist, The Oxford Club Recent polls show that 70% of Americans no longer believe that hard work and persistence lead to success. They think the American Dream is dead. That isn't just sad. It's a national tragedy. The reality is it's never been simpler to achieve the American Dream than it is today. It's just that most people don't know how to go about it. That's any easy thing to say but a harder one to prove. That's why I wrote a new book about it. It's called The American Dream: Why It's Still Alive... and How to Achieve It. (And it's available for preorder on Amazon now. Just click here.) The United States has long been recognized as The Land of Opportunity, a country where everyone has a chance to rise as far as their talents and persistence will take them. Millions of people around the world risked their lives - and their children's lives - to come here and participate. Yet a majority of Americans don't believe these opportunities are real? Something is seriously wrong here. A lot of folks need a check-up from the neck up. Yes, the country needs to change in many ways. But that is not what the book is about. Your power to change a nation of more than 330 million people is negligible. But your power to change yourself - your choices, your behavior - is limitless. SPONSORED Drill Baby Drill. The New Administration Has Big Plans for Oil. Click here to find out how you can profit from the next Oil Boom. So that's what I wrote about: What you can do - immediately - to start living the life of your dreams. It's a deeply personal book, one that reveals how I went from being flat broke to being a high-net-worth individual in a remarkably short period of time. Yes, the American Dream is about a lot more than just having money. (I cover those other aspects in the book as well.) But money is independence. It liberates you from want, from work that is drudgery, from relationships that confine you. No one is truly free who is a slave to his job, his creditors, his circumstances, or his overhead. Wealth is the great equalizer. If you have money, you have power - in the best sense. Wealth is freedom, security, and peace of mind. It allows you to do and be what you want, to support worthy causes, and help those closest to you. It enables you to follow your dreams, to spend your life the way you choose. Money gives you dignity. It gives you freedom. It gives you choices. You have a right - and, I'd argue, a responsibility - to attain some level of financial independence. Some may think I've enjoyed extraordinary circumstances that they didn't. But that is almost certainly not the case. I was born - with no great genetic gifts - into a solidly middle-class family. I was not a great student. I did not go to private schools. (As a kid, I didn't even know anyone who attended a private school.) I did not study at an elite university. I did not earn any scholarships, academic honors, or advanced degrees. I had no family connections, no mentor, and no professional network. I have never started a company, run a company, or held a management position ever. I was in my mid-40s before I earned my first salary. (Until then, I worked only straight commission jobs, also known as the "no deals, no meals" program.) And I have never received a dime of inheritance or a monetary gift - other than what can fit inside a birthday card - from anyone... ever. Yet I became a multimillionaire while still a young man - and continue to compound my wealth today. My point is not to brag. (Indeed, there is nothing on this list - aside from the financial freedom I obtained - that is the least bit laudatory.) I just want readers to understand that my net worth did not accrue because I'm an exceptional person or came from exceptional circumstances. It happened because the principles of wealth creation work. I adhered to them. And the good news is they are available to everyone. In the weeks ahead, I'm going to reveal those insights right here in these columns. Why? Because my publisher, Wiley, screwed up. The first printing of my new book is only 13,200 copies. Yet there are more than 165,000 Oxford Club Members. That means it will sell out quickly. (Especially since some Members have already bought multiple copies to give to their kids and grandkids.) In the weeks ahead, we'll talk about why the American Dream still exists ... and exactly how to achieve it. Amazingly, seven in 10 Americans don't believe this is even possible. We'll discuss why they're dead wrong. And why that belief - promoted by many - is a big part of the problem. Good investing, Alex Leave a Comment BUILD AND PROTECT YOUR WEALTH He Called Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Nvidia Over 20 Years Ago. Now He Says to Buy AI's "Next Magnificent Seven" Stocks. General Mills: How Safe Is This Beloved Company's Dividend? This Gold Play Has Beaten Gold 10-To-1 for 25 Years - Find Out More. The Math is Screaming Buy MORE FROM LIBERTY THROUGH WEALTH How "Boring" Dividend Stocks Build Extraordinary Wealth We Are All Greeks Now Your Richest Inheritance Is Right Here ChatGPT-5 and the Art of Inference JOIN THE CONVERSATION Facebook LinkedIn Email Share SPONSORED The Chance Meeting That Made Alex a Fortune Sometimes, the best investment advice comes from where you least expect it. For Alexander Green, it was from a casual chat during a basketball game 30 years ago. Uncover how this unexpected advice led to the biggest wins of Alex's career. 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October 03, 2025   |   Read Online The Day the Shutdown Ends? When the shutdown ends… maybe…  Sound money isn't enough… From the desks of President Trump and Robert Kiyosaki… this book isn't available anywhere else. That's unfortunate for most Americans. The good news is you can get a copy. Go here to see why it's so important — and exactly how you can get your hands on it. Dear Reader, S+2. Online wagering forum Kalshi hazards the "shutdown" will endure 14 days. I hope beyond hope the wager is incorrect. I would have the thing run far, far longer… clear through to infinity. Yet I am hagridden by doubt. It is my sincere belief that political Washington craves the earliest possible resolution. Is it because they cherish the nation… and believe a partial government closure injures that nation? The answer is no. Why Washington Fears a Protracted Shutdown It is because they fear an extended closure would awaken the American people to an unpleasant truth — so far as political Washington is concerned. That is, political Washington fears the American people may question its usefulness. They fear the American people will come to realize precisely how superfluous they are. And that the American people may question their continued employment. For that reason — primarily — political Washington urgently seeks to end the closure. The longer the closure… the more questioning the American people will become. Why Does the Government Employ "Nonessential" Workers? The very distinction between "essential" and "nonessential" government laborers clarifies as sunlight clarifies. If they are nonessential then why do we require them? To ask the question is to answer the question. If their services are useful but nonessential, I say let private enterprise provide them. Yet I weary from the entire sordid chapter. I will ignore it — as will most Americans — until events compel me to take it up again. I merely record this observation: The behemoth federal bureaucracy under which we wallow would not likely exist under sound money — a gold standard, for example. SPONSORED: PARADIGM PRESS WHITE HOUSE INSIDER BUCK SEXTON: "TRUMP'S NEXT MOVE WILL SHOCK THE WORLD" It could single-handedly reshape the global order… dramatically increase U.S. power… and trigger a massive American market boom the likes of which we haven't seen in 75 years. Get the details here now. » Get the details here now! A Fox in Charge of a Henhouse Sound money places reins on government ambition. Sound money enforces a constraining discipline that the fiat-funded government lacks. Sound money chains government down in thick, imprisoning fetters. That is, sound money curbs, checks and limits the natural rascalities of government. Meantime, a government in charge of money is a fox in charge of a henhouse. As I have written before: Fiat money fuels government in the manner that oxygen fuels fire. And as Washington long ago warned: "Like fire [government] is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." Wishful Thinking Thus I argue my piece for sound money. Yet a distressing question dangles in the air: Does private, decentralized money — sound money — necessarily restrain government? Today many cryptocurrency drummers believe these digital currencies are 21st-century gold. They are private creations of the free market. Thus governments cannot monkey them. Utopianists even believe cryptocurrencies can topple the state… consigning it forevermore to history's hell box. Have another guess, argues "Austrian" school economist Ryan McMaken. Sound Money Isn't Enough Here he argues that: It's… important to not overstate the benefits of taking money out of the hands of the state. The temptation to push the "fix the world" idea to utopian levels is often seen among cryptocurrency maximalists, and among some gold promoters as well… The idea that changing to different money will somehow end theft, poverty or even war is the sort of messianic thinking that would have given old-school Marxists a run for their money. Gold of course predated the state. Yet gold did not corral the state — the ambitious, avaricious and mischievous state. The state instead expanded and expanded… as the tick expands and expands under constant intake of blood. The Inexorable State More: States long predate the money monopolies they now enjoy. During the 16th and 17th centuries — without the benefit of fiat currencies — states created enormous standing armies for the first time. They established mercantilist economies.  Many rulers managed to assemble large bureaucracies to serve absolutist states. States were centralized to a degree that had not been seen in Western Europe since the Romans. It was a period of enormous gains in state building for princes and their agents. Continues Mr. McMaken, with heaviness in his heart and resignation in his pen: Yet these states could not "print money" nor enjoy the benefits of fiat money except in very short-lived and limited cases. Indeed, this period of immense state growth was also a period of "concurrent" and "parallel" currencies during which a wide variety of gold and silver coins — most of them foreign — competed within the borders of a single state…  But this didn't stop, say, Louis XIV from hammering together a powerful state… So when we ask ourselves the question "Can states survive without fiat currency?" the answer is clearly, "All experience points to yes." Sound Money Won't Fix the World Alas… all experience does point to yes. The state does not require a monopoly on money to menace our happiness. It merely requires a monopoly on coercive power — the coercive power of taxation in particular. Finally: Taking the control of money out of the hands of politicians and bureaucrats is clearly a good thing, and ought to be done quickly and thoroughly. But it won't "fix the world."  It will not, sadly. And so we must conclude that: Sound money — in this fallen world of sin and vice — cannot constrain sinful and viceful men determined not to be constrained. Alas… the ability to constrain sinful and viceful men has always eluded us. And it likely always will. Regards, Brian Maher for Freedom Financial News P.S. One book can't make you rich. We all know that. And I'm not necessarily saying that this book released by President Trump and Robert Kiyosaki will automatically make you rich.  I would never — ever — say that. But…  What you read on pages 33 and 243 alone just could help you get rich. How?  Go here now for details — and judge for yourself.   Update your email preferences or unsubscribe here © 2025 Freedom Financial News, an imprint of Freedom Financial Research, LLC 435 Merchant Walk Square, Ste 300-64 Charlottesville, VA 22902, United States of America Terms of Service