Happy New Year 2025

Dear everyone, Happy New Year 2025.
I sincerely hope that this year will be
a year of even more Growth and
Prosperity for you.

Below is my New Year’s Contribution:

New sentences were added. January 7, 2025

Do you understand what this graph
indicates?
This is the Upward Trend in the market
capitalization of the US stock market
over the past five years.
In particular, it rose sharply from 2023
to the end of last year, 2024.
The market capitalization of stocks
shows the strength of US companies
trading on the stock market and is one of
the strongest indicators of the robust
development of the US economy.

The American market rose sharply
from the second half of 2020, but the
COVID-19 pandemic began around
February 2022, causing a slight decline
in the second half of 2022 to 2023.
(Table below)
However, it began to rise again sharply
from the second half of 2023 and has
continued to rise for about a year and
a half until the end of 2024.
As of December 27, 2024, the market
capitalization of US stocks was
$62 trillion, accounting for 51% of the
world’s total market capitalization.

On a Global Scale, the world’s total market
capitalization expanded by $13.6 trillion in
2024 alone.
Of this, US companies accounted for 90%.
This shows that the development of
US companies is the Driving Force behind
the rise in global stocks.
Currently, investors from all over the world,
from individuals to professionals, are directing
their funds into US stocks.
And the US is becoming “The Only Winner” 
in the world. This shows the fact that funds
from all over the world are concentrated
and gathered in the American market.

According to research firm ‘EPFR Global’,
US stock funds saw inflows of $440 billion
in 2024 alone.
In contrast, if we look at countries other
than the US, European stock funds saw
outflows for the 22nd consecutive month
in 2024, and while Chinese, emerging market,
and Japanese stocks are sluggish, the US
only shows the “winning” in the world.
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Furthermore, the growth of American
companies is not the only driving force
behind the rise in global stock prices.
The overall strength of the U.S. economy 
is the central driving force.
David G Herro, vice chairman of Harris
Associates, a U.S. asset management
company, said,
“The strength of American household and
corporate balance sheets, as well as solid
employment shone through.”
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So why is the United States only achieving
such high levels of development in today’s
international society?
I believe that there are many causes, including
the world’s economic trends, the international
situation, and political and social factors.

However, the most fundamental cause is —
because you have taken the action of reading
well, thinking carefully, and understanding well
about the Law of Origin, “The law that has
Buddha-nature as its main body at its center.”

And, it is also because you have performed
the Act of Wisdom of thinking carefully
about “The law that penetrates the origin of
the phenomenal world,” understanding it well,
and speaking it to others about it.

And, it is because, based on that information,
you have performed the Act of Mercy of
“Sending Good Fortune” to the people and
citizens around you.

These Acts of Wisdom and Mercy of you
have manifested the power of “The Law of
Origin” and “Buddha-nature,” and produced
such wonderful “Results of Development
and Prosperity” in American society.
Those are Great Results!!

Of course, we must from now on continue
to make many efforts to ensure that this
prosperity continues and develops.
But America’s current development is one
of the great achievements.
There is no doubt that this achievement
will become a solid and powerful foundation 
for building “World Peace” and a “Peaceful
International Community” in the truest sense
of the word.

To be continued at a later date

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