Day 1,716: in aggregate

Because the shale boom of the 2010s made America a net energy exporter, it has in aggregate benefited rather than suffered from the high energy prices that hit the wallets of Europeans.

America’s extraordinary economy keeps defying the pessimists

Artwork of the day 
Shale
Dan Christensen
Date: 1974
Style: Abstract Expressionism
Genre: abstract

Word of the day 
in aggregate: in total, after different prices, amounts, etc. have been added together:

Quote of the day
“...while the individual man is an insoluble puzzle, in the aggregate he becomes a mathematical certainty.”

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Fourz