Regarding the second assumption: the Prefaces to the recent print editions of the Statistical Abstract said that both government and private sources contributed to its mix of data.

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The second mistaken assumption is that ACOs can succeed without changing patient behavior.

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The second is the assumption of heroic cost savings from Medicare and deep cuts in payments.

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Second, the assumption of one additional percent of growth over a 15-year period possibly overestimates the effect in the early years, but underestimates to a far greater degree in later years when the economy is larger, the penetration is higher and the network effect is greater.

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Now match that assumption with the evidence presented on the second day of the trial by the director of the police's Special Branch, who told the court that the police had begun to investigate Mr Anwar's sexual conduct as long ago as 1992.

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Military leaders have embraced the sanguine assumption that the political system will somehow avert a second wave of cuts because it would be so destructive, but as of today the law says the cuts begin next January.

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The assumption built into mainstream economics is much closer to the second of these than the first.

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The second is that in the economics of taxation is is a basic assumption (also a basic proof) that you want to tax capital incomes less than labour incomes.

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