Over the longer term, investing opportunities will be better elsewhere, but in the next few months, the US market should lead the globe. Here are 3 ways to play the home game.

I can think of a dozen reasons why, in the long term, U.S. stocks will do worse than stocks in China, Brazil, India and Canada -- and maybe even in Norway, South Africa, Germany and Turkey.

Huge government debt, highly leveraged consumers, underinvestment in infrastructure, a lagging education system, rising interest rates, a small and, in industries such as autos, uncompetitive manufacturing sector, out-of-control health care costs . . . do I need to go on?

How to invest in emerging markets

In contrast, the U.S. looks like it's in for stable interest rates, inflation just high enough to...