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.

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is Bloomberg surveillance. If anybody needs capable

management teams for the future, it's the commercial banks, right?

They're not going to go away.

The business isn't going to go

away it's not a sign that the economy is not prosperous the fact that inflation's

only 1% I don't get it the fourth quarter was bad in terms of jobs. In fact it was

fantastic in terms of job growth and that's what's the most important.

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