Really? Because where I live, my food costs the same, my car was still the same price, airline tickets are cheaper, gas is cheaper; I get either the same amount or more for the same price today than I did yesterday or last week. Where do you live?
that only lasts as long as it is perceived to. which has two effects: foreign investment in us national debt, as well as domestic economic investment via debt and equity instruments.
once the faith is gone, all that evaporates. and history is very clear, that when you generate money supply just by printing more of it, meanwhile racking up debt, it is effectively a globally-funded national pyramid scheme that will eventually collapse. it may be soon, it may be a generation from now. just like the dot-com boom, your observation of and hubris over same or cheaper prices, is nothing more than a bubble of emotionally supported artificial perceptions, which are not supported by the fundamentals.
comparing the cost of things before and after the war is meaningless. unless the policies, actions, and deep-rooted systemic problems of the both the legislative and executive branches (not to mention the federal reserve corporation) change drastically, the devaluation will come, and you will not be able to fail to notice. whether it is a crash of magnitude never before seen in human history, or a generations-long synergistic spiraling of debt, default, corruption, collapse of national stature and world influence...this is what we are setting ourselves up for.