If you had bought
$1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, of the original $1,000.00 you would have $16.50.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought
$1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago,
drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 5 cent deposit,
you would have $107 or 10 cent deposits in MI, you would have $214.00.
Based on
the above, the most sound current investment advice is to drink heavily
and recycle.