Now, I should say right up front as the professional forecasters in each of our offices who contribute to the forecast frequently say, we are economists and not soothsayers and all forecasts have to be understood to be subject to substantial margins of error.

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When the same economist, or even one not so eminent, tells you that trade is wealth creating, or that rent control reduces the supply of affordable housing, that wages rise as productivity does, believe them for this is the part of the subject that is well understood, where the basic ground rules really are known.

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Mee appears to have understood this, his prose on the subject assuming a wistful tone.

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The rule that expenses must be for costs "wholly" incurred on Parliamentary business - a phrase introduced in 2003 - was not "widely understood or enforced" and that "subject to reasonableness limits, all second home expenditure is allowed in full".

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If they understood that a critical piece of the lock was subject to a magnetic field, then why did they not design it differently?

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The basic concepts of addition and subtraction, place value, multiplication and division, and how they relate to each other, need to be understood before children can go any further in the subject, he says.

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The Luddites understood that, which made them more coherent on the subject than some of today's sceptics, who oppose integration but not technological progress.

ECONOMIST: Profits over people

Mrs May did not identify the countries facing possible migration curbs in her Sunday Times interview, but the newspaper says they are understood to include Romania and Bulgaria, which are currently subject to temporary visa restrictions.

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What needs to be understood about international taxation within the European Union is that it is subject to EU rules, not national ones.

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