Someday computers could even make superfluous a few of those million-dollar-a-year block traders manning banks of telephones.
"You will never see as many great women investors or traders as men — period, end of story," he said.
By 7.30am, the livestock market in Lodwar is packed with goats, traders and men in traditional dress.
Unlike the vast majority of traders, these men are Syrian, not Turkish, and eager to show their wares to a foreigner.
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I am so disappointed over Paul Tudor Jones' comments on women,but I'm too busy knitting baby booties to articulate my thoughts @BloombergTV — Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) 24 May 13 This guy really should read the literature on how women are better traders than men: http://t.co/qkl5TBDPbi — Noah Smith (@Noahpinion) 24 May 13.
At the al-Karam border post, at the frontier with Jordan, chaos runs through the night as traders, middle men and opportunists of every stripe elbow for the favor of Iraqi frontier officials, and the entry into Iraq that gives them access to an economy grotesquely distorted by the corruption and back-pocket dealings that have proliferated under sanctions.
What he should have said was this: "There are not as many women traders because men like me won't hire them".
He opined there will never be "as many great women investors or traders as men -- period, end of story" because women have babies, which become a "focus killer".
Some commentators have suggested that these communities may have been established by Jewish traders (usually men) who brought their ideas and genes and converted members of the local population (Goldstein 2008).
