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.
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.