| 1 | The price of assets is rocketing. | |
| 2 | He just insulted you and you feel your blood pressure rise. | |
| 3 | Prices have soared partly because of a severe drought in Russia, which was one of the world' s biggest exporters of wheat in 2009. | |
| 4 | First, the value of these companies' portfolios rebounded with the surge in stock and bond prices. | |
| 5 | His neighbors are worse off: they put down their tools when the price of gasoline, fertilizer and pesticides soared. |