Too true. My physician wife worked and did not wear red. I’m 99.9% certain she had no idea women were doing that yesterday. Had she known, she’d have said (as she does many other times when people get off work and she doesn’t), “I’m working, why aren’t they? Do they think they’re special or something?”

In finance (what I’m in) and in other fields like I.T., the economies of scale just don’t equate to other fields.

Agreed. I lived in Long Island, visited my wife (then girlfriend) in Brooklyn all the time while she was in med school and then lived in Boston.

why would more than half of a given population want to live in less than a tenth of the overall area? Easy, because the 94% is not as appealing to more than half of the people

Welcome to the law of supply and demand.

People don’t realize 94% of NY’s land mass and 43% of its population live north of NYC.

Yeah... I get that, I’m literate.

It can be both. A fiduciary is one who has a duty to to look out for his or her clients’ best interests. A fiduciary duty is the specific duty being described.

Check out some towns and counties in NY. Highest property taxes in the nation. My $255,000 house means I pay about $7,600 in property taxes and I live in the lowest taxed town in the county.

Clearly it does. I have the same credit score as you and I don’t have 20 credit cards. No one needs $250,000 in credit unless you’re buying houses on credit. That, or you’re living off credit. Neither idea is a good one.

I NEVER said I would do that. I merely stated that MY CHASE FREEDOM CARD gets 1% on everything and 5% quarterly on certain things. You really need to read more carefully.

Re-read, smart guy.

I promise you, if I read over your contract I could find no less than 5 things wrong with it that could bite you in the ass.

The “tool” is called hiring a lawyer. Yeah... it’s a bit more expensive, but you won’t end up screwing yourself when you screw up the contract, because you will and it will be expensive to fix.

5% of $1,000 is $50.

Um.... math?

Yeah, I just don’t like having multiple bank accounts. More to keep track of. I have a single checking account and that’s it.

Regarding the Fidelity Visa:

I was going to say the same thing. I have the Chase Freedom card and I get 1% back on everything and 5% back on certain things every quarter. I have yet to see “government” as one of the 5% places.

The most a company can really do is just be a good company and offer enough benefits and fair treatment where unionization is not desirable. Unions tend to form where work conditions are bad.