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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On the show today, Max Baucus, the former senator, former U.S. Ambassador to China,

Libby Cantrell from PimpCO, and we'll talk to Black

Rocks head of inflation-linked bond portfolios.

But first, Ed Hyman joins us here in our Bloomberg 1130 studios.

He's the chairman of Evercore, ISI.

There was sort of a beautiful moment on surveillance

television a little while ago.

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