U.S. stocks closed essentially unchanged on the day after Thanksgiving, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 down 0.1% and up 0.1%, respectively. The blue line tracks the inflation-adjusted price of gold since August 1971, expressed in November 2015 dollars. In fact, one MarketWatch reporter argues that if more Americans knew about this, the government would have to shell out an extra $10 billion annually.