{"id":724311,"date":"2010-04-27T06:21:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T10:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uh-oh-americans-beginning-to-love-stocks-again-and-are-still-bizarrely-infatuated-with-real-estate-2010-4"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:28:47","slug":"uh-oh-americans-beginning-to-love-stocks-again-and-are-still-bizarrely-infatuated-with-real-estate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/724311","title":{"rendered":"Uh-Oh: Americans Beginning To Love Stocks Again (And Are Still Bizarrely Infatuated With Real Estate)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/127529\/Americans-Faith-Stocks-Best-Investment-Partly-Restored.aspx?utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=syndication&amp;utm_content=morelink&amp;utm_term=Business+-+Economy+-+Investors\">new Gallup poll<\/a> confirms a few not very surprising things.<\/p>\n<p>One is that America is starting to believe in stocks again, which, given the S&amp;P at 1200 is not altogether surprising. 22% think they&#8217;re the best long-term investment.<\/p>\n<p>Also, despite everything, Americans still hold a bizarre fixation with real estate, as a plurality, 29%, still consider it the best investment. (Though this is down from 50% at one point).<\/p>\n<p>And bonds &#8212; which most Americans have never seen in a bear market &#8212; continue to pull up the rear.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the chart.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bd6ba237f8b9a151ed30000\/chart.png?w=780\" border=\"0\" alt=\"chart\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uh-oh-americans-beginning-to-love-stocks-again-and-are-still-bizarrely-infatuated-with-real-estate-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/FrDQ6FobhTw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Gallup poll confirms a few not very surprising things. One is that America is starting to believe in stocks again, which, given the S&amp;P at 1200 is not altogether surprising. 22% think they&#8217;re the best long-term investment. Also, despite everything, Americans still hold a bizarre fixation with real estate, as a plurality, 29%, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-724311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-32qr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825920,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724311\/revisions\/825920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}