  When economic analysts make forecasts about future economic conditions, they rely on assumptions about variables - interest rates, tax revenue, et cetera. urlLink Jerome over at MyDD went and took a look around at nine different financial organizations' assumptions regarding the price of oil per barrel in Fiscal Year 2005. Goldman Sachs: $35 Raymond James: $34 AG Edwards: $32 Merrill Lynch: $32 Lehman Brothers: $30 Smith Barney: $28 UBS: $28 CSFB: $27 Bear Stearns: $30 Today's actual price of oil: urlLink $45.90 per barrel. Beware rosy economic forecasts, people. And aren't these magnates getting paid the big bucks to be right? Who wants to predict when prices will plateau? 
