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S&P 500 returns in July: 2025: 2.2% 2024: 1.1% 2023: 3.1% 2022: 9.1% 2021: 2.3% 2020: 5.5% 2019: 1.3% 2018: 3.6% 2017: 1.9% 2016: 3.6% 2015: 1.9% Average: 3.2% (past 11 years)

On this day in 1994: Amazon founded.

250 American Inventions: 3D printing Adhesive bandage Air brake Air conditioning Airplane Artificial heart Assembly line Atomic bomb Autopilot Bakelite Bar code Barbed wire BASIC Bifocals Birth control pill Blender Blood bank Blue jeans Bone marrow transplant Breathalyzer Bubble gum Bubble wrap Bulldozer C language Cable car Cable TV Can opener Car radio Carbon dating Cash register Cat litter Ceiling fan Cell phone Chairlift Chemotherapy Chewing gum Chocolate chip cookie Clothespin COBOL Coca-Cola Color television Combine harvester Communications satellite Computer mouse Condensed milk Confocal microscope Corn flakes Cotton candy Cotton gin Cotton swabs Crayons Credit card Crop duster Crossword puzzle Cruise control Cyclotron Dental floss Deodorant Digital camera Dishwasher Disposable diaper DNA sequencer Drive-in theater Drywall Duct tape E-ink Electric guitar Electric razor Electric starter Electric streetcar Electronic computer Electronic television Email Escalator Ether anesthesia Ethernet Facial tissue Ferris wheel Fiberglass Fire escape Fire hydrant Fire sprinkler Flash freezing Flashlight Floppy disk Flu vaccine FM radio Forklift FORTRAN Franklin stove Frisbee Garage door opener Garbage disposal Gatling gun Gatorade Golf tee GPS Graham cracker Grain elevator GUI Hard drive Hearing aid Heart valve Heart-lung machine Hula hoop Ice cream maker Ice machine Implantable defibrillator Implantable pacemaker Instant camera Integrated circuit Interchangeable parts Internet Iron lung Jeep Jet ski Jukebox Kevlar Kidney transplant Kinetoscope Laptop Laser Laser printer LED Lie detector Light bulb (practical) Lightning rod Liquid-fuel rocket LISP Lunar module Mars rover Maser Masking tape Mason jar Measles vaccine Mechanical reaper Microprocessor Microwave oven Modem Monopoly Morse code Mousetrap mRNA vaccine Nail clipper Neoprene Nuclear reactor Nuclear submarine Nylon OLED Outboard motor Pap smear Paper bag Paper cup Paper towels Parking meter PCR Personal computer Phillips screw Phonograph Pinball Plastic wrap Play-Doh Polio vaccine Popcorn machine Popsicle Post-it notes Potato chips Radio telescope Refrigerator car Remote control Repeating rifle Reusable rocket Revolver Revolving door Richter scale Roller coaster Root beer Saccharin Safety elevator Safety pin Safety razor Scrabble Segway Sewing machine Shipping container Shopping cart Shopping mall Silly Putty Skateboard Skyscraper Sleeping car Sliced bread Slinky Slot machine Slow cooker Smartphone Smoke detector Snowboard Softball Solar cell Space shuttle Space telescope Spray paint Spreadsheet SQL Stealth aircraft Steamboat Steel plow Stock ticker Streptomycin Styrofoam Supercomputer Superglue Supermarket Supersonic aircraft Surgical gloves Swim fins Swivel chair Synthesizer Tampon Taser Tea bag Technicolor Teddy bear Teflon Telegraph Teleprompter Thermostat Toaster Tommy gun Traffic light Transistor Transistor radio Tupperware TV dinner Typewriter UNIX Video game Videotape recorder Virtual reality Volleyball Vulcanized rubber Water skis WD-40 Weather satellite Wetsuit Windshield wipers Xerography Zamboni Zipper

Jeff Bezos on why the United States has more entrepreneurial success than other countries:

Age of each of these countries: USA: 250 years Netherlands: 445 years Sweden: 503 years Spain: 547 years Monaco: 729 years Switzerland: 735 years Thailand: 788 years Mongolia: 820 years Portugal: 883 years Hungary: 1,026 years Poland: 1,060 years Denmark: 1,061 years England: 1,099 years Norway: 1,154 years Russia: 1,164 years France: 1,183 years Morocco: 1,238 years Bulgaria: 1,345 years China: 2,246 years Iran: 2,575 years Japan: 2,685 years Ethiopia: 3,000 years Egypt: 5,125 years

Thomas Jefferson designed a portable laptop desk and used it to draft the Declaration of Independence.

Hotmail launched on this day in 1996.

Apple’s July 4th ad in 1981.

“There’s no pressure because I’m doing something I love to do.” ~ LeBron James, age 18

On this day in 1962: Walmart opened Revenue in 1962: $975,000 (total) Revenue in 2026: $975,000 in 43 seconds

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$10,000 invested one year ago: SanDisk: $501,433
Bloom Energy: $126,547
Western Digital: $99,816
Micron: $93,654
Lumentum: $90,265
Seagate: $66,861
Intel: $62,335
Teradyne: $53,808
Astera Labs: $53,420
Nebius: $49,913

On this day in 1979: Sony Walkman released.

Chip stocks that have doubled or more this year: SanDisk: 819% Micron: 302% Intel: 279% Marvell: 250% Arm: 225% Astera: 197% Applied Mat: 185% AMD: 169% Lam Research: 149% Teradyne: 146% KLA: 142% GlobalFoundries: 132% Macom: 116% Coherent: 110% Entegris: 108%

2026: Tesla tests Cybercabs with no steering wheel or pedals on public roads. 2016: Elon Musk predicts self driving car with no steering wheel and audience laughs.

On this day in 2010: Tesla went public. $280 invested in the IPO would be worth $100,000 today.