Stocks and homes are assets priced in US$ -- their soundly shown price histories are inflation-adjusted ("real").
Such are seldom seen, because: Well apparent therein are our nation's serial, massive mispricings.
"The public be suckered" is both this track record and keeping it unseen. "Dow" is "Dow Jones Industrial Average".
Serial Herd Behaviors (How Deceived Are You?)
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Real Homes, ca. 28 KB
Real Dow, ca. 28 KB

Elaboration here:
Real Dow & Real Homes & Personal Saving & Debt Burden
including:
The New York Times published a plot such as Real Homes on 8/27/2006, and
The Wall Street Journal published a plot such as Real Dow on 3/30/1999.
(Also, WSJ, small plot including such as Real Homes on 6/27/2011)
(Also, CNN, plot of real Dow on 3/6/2013)
(Also, WSJ, log plot, Nominal Dow and Real Dow on 12/28/2009)
(And, Durango Herald, plot of Nominal Dow and Real Dow on 5/1/2011)


Elsewhere:
Condemn venal journalism for severely fooling the people
Higher Education Panders to Intellectual Savagery