To me, context is about pattern recognition.

It's connecting the dots.

It's giving readers an ability to synthesize

a number of different perspectives

so they can understand how the greater whole works,

because nothing really occurs in isolation anymore.

I'm Tim O'Brien and I'm the senior executive editor at Bloomberg Opinion.

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I don't want to be complacent.

There are things the world should be worrying about, but it's just not as bad a world as some people are saying.

For what most families care about, it's not GDP growth or the size of the economy as a whole,

it's how they're doing.

Real capital investment is way below average.

Why? Because business people are very uncertain about the future.

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Good morning I'm Michael McKee, along with Tom Keene.

It is 7 a.m. on Wall Street, 7 a.m. in Washington, D.C.

where we find ourselves this morning watching the wailing and

gnashing of teeth among Republicans the day after super Tuesday. Tom a big night

for Donald Trump and Ted Cruz's Chris La of the Washington Post says the man the party fears and the man the party loaves.

I was transfixed by all the different political coverage including Bloomberg politics last evening between about 7.30 and really into the 11 o'clock hour.

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