You have never studied history or economic and you don't know your math. Price wise things have never been cheaper.
Food prices are held artificially high but are still lower then they were. I am sorry but you have no idea what you are talking about.
The numbers I mentioned were scalars, for housing prices. But if you want a factor of increase, figure an order of magnitude and then some. Have wages increased an order of magnitude?
Maybe those 'golden parachute' packages - Franklin Raines, and such. Maybe them. But many others?