09-27-2016, 10:43 PM
Who needs to carry a bulky bag around when you can stick a full-size laptop (or two) right into a jacket pocket? Available starting today, the ScotteVest Off the Grid (OTG) jacket has 29 different pockets, including two padded areas in front that can hold laptops as large as 14 inches. Made in both men and women's versions, the $215 coat also has an inside pocket for a large tablet, an RFID-blocking pocket and two clear pockets that allow you to interact with your phone's touch screen through them.
New Jacket Can Hold Two Full-Size Laptops in Its Pockets
Companies with more female senior managers perform better, with stock-price returns sometimes more than double that of less diverse companies, the latest update to a key Credit Suisse report confirmed. "We find clear evidence that companies with a higher participation of women in decision-making roles continue to generate higher returns on equity, while running more conservative balance sheets," Credit Suisse's chairman Urs Rohner, and Iris Bohnet, a public policy professor at Harvard University and Credit Suisse board member, said in the report.
Female CEOs, board members super-charge company returns: Credit Suisse report
One of the themes of this election season has been the Wall Street analysts who expect the U.S. economy to do better under Hillary Clinton, who would be the nation’s first female president, than under Donald Trump. Similar bets about the value of female leadership are being made in the stock market. The SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index exchange-traded fund SHE, -0.46% launched earlier this year, has attracted attention from those who want to play its central strategy: that companies with a high representation of women in the executive ranks outperform their male-dominated peers. But while the fund was created to support the cause of corporate gender diversity, performance data shows support for the fund’s thesis, meaning investors wouldn’t just be making a moral statement, but could also get a financial benefit for their position.
This ETF bets that companies with female leadership will outperform - MarketWatch
Enthusiasts use the tiny Raspberry Pi computers for many things. Fun ones include garage door opening, retro gaming, a voice-activated tea maker, live images from near-space and even a GPS kitten tracker. These computers are primarily educational but do anything a normal computer does, so users also send email, play Minecraft, program and (it turns out) do macroeconomic modelling.
DIY Macroeconomic Modelling on a Raspberry Pi | Bank Underground
This philosophy—stamped into policy by Ronald Reagan and maintained by subsequent Democratic and Republican administrations—unleashed a torrent of mergers and acquisitions and resulted in the abandonment of cases against companies that abuse or unfairly obtain monopoly power. A conservative judiciary raised the bar for proving antitrust violations; conduct that was previously considered illegal was now hailed as generating efficiencies. The result is concentrations of power across the economy at levels unseen since the Gilded Age.