There was a time when that may have been undoubtedly true — when you could trust that a crowd of people was, in fact, a naturally occurring mass of individuals.
And if the future unfolds in line with the plan, the words of Ms Yellen will acquire extra weight – weight that is undoubtedly useful when you are steering the world's largest economy.
But – as your family and friends will undoubtedly remind you when you mention a gap year – these are tough economic times.
Undoubtedly, when people look back at this post from 2023, some, and maybe even all, of the predictions will seem silly.
Undoubtedly, when light-waves travel, events occur, and it used to be thought that these events must be "in" something; the something in which they were was called the aether.
That was undoubtedly when Fernando Torres, the browbeaten, weight-of-the-world-on-his-shoulders, £50m man ran free on the Barcelona goal, tricked his way past Victor Valdes and slotted in the goal that secured Chelsea's passage to the Champions League final.
Undoubtedly, when it comes to creating and providing jobs, the prime responsibility must lie with the private sector, while government has a collaborative role to play, both supplying and encouraging investment that puts people – and especially the young – productively into work.
Undoubtedly when 1816 unfolded as "The Year Without A Summer" there was widespread anxiety among farmers.
Undoubtedly, when a tsunami arrives at the coastline it is already broken; its velocity is dramatically decreasing due to its friction on the bottom and length and period values are also changing.
More will be added to it, undoubtedly, when Pixar's next movie The Good Dinosaur comes out in 2014.
