If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago,
it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original
$1,000.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you
would have $49.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines or Lehman Brothers,
you would have nothing left.
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 $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is
to drink heavily and recycle. This is called the 401-Keg Plan.
