UP co-founders Larry Kudow and Stephen Moore summarized our optimistic vision for the next 250 years in the New York Post:

As Americans celebrate our great nation’s independence, let’s reaffirm the fundamental values that built this republic into the most prosperous economy in history: freedom and free enterprise, liberty and limited government, the rule of law and private property, free-market competition and individual incentives…

We’ve never been afraid to build something new  –  even if it displaces what came before  –  because the fruits of risk carry the whole country forward.

As a result, throughout our history our economy has grown at an annual rate of 3.5%.

No other nation on Earth can boast such growth and ever-expanding prosperity.

Once again, freedom and free enterprise win.

Take Henry Ford: Some worried that his cars would put the buggy makers out of business, and they did.

But that created opportunity  –  new companies, new innovations, greater prosperity for all…

In America’s next 250 years, the pattern will repeat in the realms of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space and a dozen other frontiers we can’t yet name…

If the demand is endless and the frontier has no edge, someone must lead the way.

That leader must be America.