[GoodDay]

OK, so how come everything I go to buy at the store, food, clothes, beer, etc, is so much more expensive?

It's called "inflation."

As long as the Fed/Treasury keep flooding us with fiat dollars -- and Bernanke long ago promised that he would always resort to that -- there will never be deflation.

[east1234]

Exactly, the only thing going down is home values. I priced out some building materials for a project a while back. A month later almost everything in my spreadsheet has gone up. Pressure treated wood, up. PVC pipe, up. etc.