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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The length of the moving average is irrelevant,

but the ratio between the short-term

moving average and the long-term moving average

is absolutely critical.

Japan from a point of view of an equity investor is indeed do-do-do.

Am I allowed to say that?

We had growth in the first quarter of only 5-10 and yet the labor market seemed to remain fairly strong and we're not quite sure how that square.

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