Why you should buy the American Dream at the point of maximum pessimism [Video]

Famed investor Sir John Templeton always recommended investing at the point of maximum pessimism. This principle emphasizes that the optimal time to invest and find opportunities is at the bottom of the market and during a crisis, when people are most pessimistic or a stock seems to be undervalued. 

People might say that the American Dream is at the point of maximum pessimism. Economists who relate the American Dream to “social mobility” claim that, because fewer people are out-earning their parents now as compared to the 1940s, that decline in mobility shows a decline in the dream itself.

Indeed, journalists like David Leonhardt, musicians like Green Day, and others who say that the American Dream is better found outside of the United States try to …