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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Can I bring in Richard Oz?

Please bring an investor.

Richard Haas joins us now president of the Council on Foreign Relations

author of a world in disarray,

American foreign policy and the crisis of the old order.

He's in our Bloomberg 1130 studios with Tom in New York.

Sorry about that, Richard.

Let me start by asking you about what's happening in New York today.

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