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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We don't know where the next recession is.

All we know is that this expansion is about six and a half years old and that's longer than the average expansion.

We're getting signals which are distorted

cause interest rates are too low.

It would be a terrible commentary and a terrible thing in reality if it takes an overt crisis to get agreement

or get progress and then you're risking things going crazy.

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Good morning everyone, Michael McKee and Tom Keene, this Thursday before jobs day coming up

Stuart Offman of PNC. We'll look at a fair, usually balanced view of the American economy from Dr. Hoffman.

Really looking forward to talking to Stuart Hoffman.

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