nanocompendium

In 2035, the average real price of crude oil in the Reference case is about $145 per barrel in 2010 dollars, or about $230 per barrel in nominal dollars.

— Projections in the Annual Energy Outlook 2012

(Source: eia.gov)

An economist is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

— Old joke based on Oscar Wilde’s quip about a cynic.

(Source: forbes.com)

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty

— ascribed to abolitionist Wendell Phillips