To augment sibling replies: depends on one's, subjective and highly personal, portfolio and financial strategy. But U.S. has a strong stock market(s).

VEA. Look it up. Europe, Hong Kong, etc have been outperforming the US for over a year now.

Google the ticker and compare to VTI then get back to me. And that’s without even mentioning gold.

I did, and I see most years it has not beaten VTI… and if you invested 10k in them for the past 10 years VTI is near 2.5x more money.

May be worth it for diversification, but you’d be very lucky if it outperformed the next 10 years.

> for over a year now.

What if you zoom out to say, 5 years, 10 years?

Or are you predicting that from here on out, VEA will outperform say, the S&P500 and the NASDAQ?

Yes I think it will outperform.

I don’t know if you’ve seen the recent news in the US but things are going downhill very quickly. I don’t expect us to stay out of a recession for long once our government collapses into a dictatorship.

Unfortunately you seem to forget that money movements are amoral.

A country could be a brutal dictatorship and still be a great place to grow your wealth. Investors aren’t going to willingly make themselves poorer just because Americans are in a private hell of their own making.

America is still the world’s top consumer. People are broke because they literally consume too much. Debt slaves will make you RICH.

My VT shares have risen in bear direct proportion to VTIs relative underperformance. The main difference is the international exposure of VT.

VXUS is up almost twice the S&P 500 year over year, although some of that is likely the weakening of the dollar.

Compare them over the last 5 or 10 or 15 years. Since VXUS's inception the S&P has outperformed it by over 7x.

Going back how’s many years? I checked recently and VTI easily out perform in the last 5 years.

You should also compare risk, not just returns.

depends what decade you are talking about.

Not really, but diversification often useful; it reduces variance, which is a common goal. And there have been decades (e.g. 2000-2010) where international stocks outperformed American ones.