I am not the 99%

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I am guessing this person works in a gas station and cant spell very good.

Please elaborate further.

[Golden Gate 530]

I just want our best and brightest to not be ripping off the public in their strivings for riches.

[Golden Gate 530]

I am guessing this person works in a gas station and cant spell very good.

You mean, can't spell very well, although I don't see any spelling errors in his sign???

Sorry, that is the English teacher in me.

Edited October 13, 2011 by Golden Gate

[Misha & Ira 113]

I am guessing this person works in a gas station and cant spell very good.

You say that like working at a gas station is a bad thing.

[MyLittlePony 340]

You say that like working at a gas station is a bad thing.

Do the gas station workers have good pay?

[Ready to do it 101]

Since when did GPA really matter? I'd much prefer a 3.8 and have connections then have a 4.0 and not have connections. GPA is irrelevant to some extent (assuming you know the right people and the right people want you in). The 3.8 guy (even a 3.5 guy) is getting in over the 4.0 guy everytime if he has the right people going to bat for him.

Edited October 13, 2011 by Ready to do it

[Golden Gate 530]

Do the gas station workers have good pay?

It's getting him through college, isn't it? A job is a job. Kudos to him for making it work!

[Ban Hammer 13,745]

I am guessing this person works in a gas station and cant spell very good.

oh the irony.

[Misha & Ira 113]

It put me through university as well...and I supported a wife and 4 children while working in a gas station.

[MyLittlePony 340]

oh the irony.

?????

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

?????

The use of words to convey the opposite of their literal meaning; a statement or situation where the meaning is contradicted by the appearance or presentation of the idea.

[Golden Gate 530]

It put me through university as well...and I supported a wife and 4 children while working in a gas station.

Yep, my Dad worked at a gas station, drove a bus, and had some other third job I don't remember, and he had a wife, five kids and eventually got two masters degrees and his doctorate.

[scandal 951]

Anyone with a brain can make 150K. I'm talking real money and you're peddling mediocrity.

That's not true, and you know it.

yes, they all have presences in london.

but new york is still king.

King of what? US equities, undoubtedly. And the US fixed income market, bank underwriting, M&A activity are all heavily NY centric. But that's not all of finance. Not in the US, and not globally.

But certainly not Futures trading, where Eurex (Frankfurt) CME Group (Chicago), and LIFFE/Euronext (London) dominate the global volumes. Even the markets you might think of as NY (NYMEX, COMEX, NYBOT) don't have live NY floors any longer and their electronic platforms aren't in NY, they're in Chicago since CME Group bought NYMEX/COMEX and ICE bought NYBOT.

NY is also not king in the world's largest single market, spot FX, which trades over $2Trillion notional every day. The main centers are Singapore, Tokyo, London, New York but London has always been king over NY. It has larger trading volumes than NY, and also higher growth rates:

Questions raised over UK’s forex volume surge

Market participants attribute a range of factors to the 23% rise in foreign exchange turnover in the UK reported by the Bank of England's FX Joint Standing Committee on July 25

Senior market participants and industry association officials have expressed surprise at a 23% rise in foreign exchange turnover in the UK that came to light last week, with speculation it could be attributed to a rise in high-frequency trading activity in London.

On July 25, the Bank of England's Foreign Exchange Joint Standing Committee (JSC) reported in its semi-annual turnover survey that average daily reported turnover in the UK had jumped to $2,191 billion in April; 23% higher than in October 2010 and 30% higher than a year earlier.

Average daily turnover in spot rose by 43% year-on-year, climbing from $642 billion in April 2010 to $919 billion in April this year, while average turnover in swaps rose from $756 billion to $909 billion in the same period.

The JSC provided little explanation as to why the UK might have experienced such a dramatic rise in spot and swaps volume, but figures for North America released on the same day by the Foreign Exchange Committee at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were much more modest. Average daily volume in over-the-counter FX instruments reached $799 billion in April, up just 3.5% from $772 billion in the October 2010 survey.

Although the UK would be expected to attract greater volumes than North America, given the dominance of London as a centre for forex, the startling disparity between the two sets of figures has baffled participants, with some attributing the UK growth to the increasing activity of high-frequency traders, and others suggesting it has been caused by a confluence of factors.

"We are making some enquiries as to how the data is counted, but we think the increase in London over New York is due to high-frequency types trading in London hours and so coming through London trading desks. When the pricing is held in London, the server is here so the volume is here," says Mark Johnson, global head of cash forex trading at HSBC in London.

[mawilson 2,133]

I suspect he or she didn't do well in math....because per their description they likely ARE in the 99% group mathematically.

He's saying he doesn't support the protesting losers, even though technically he's in the 99%.

[mawilson 2,133]

30 hours a week making "barely above minimum wage" = NOT IN THE 99%

This IDIOT makes less than $250 a week...He is probably in the bottom .05%

You're really missing the point.