The inflation rate is down, long term investments (houses, stocks, retirement funds) and wages are all up - that's how currencies designed to inflate (as the dollar is) work. Money supply expands to deal with downtimes, inflation happens as it recovers, and then wages and prices stabilize at the new level.
Prices really only go down on the whole (i.e. not related to specific demand) when the currency deflates, and that's an extremely bad thing - as in you're headed into an imminent depression - for the economy.
So yeah, I knew that already.