Sep 29, 2008 21:10
If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00.With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have$36.00 left. Fanny Mae, $25.00. Freddie Mac, $20.00. Lehman Brothers… $0.12.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, You would have had $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
It's called the 401-Keg Plan.