If you bought $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would be worth $49.00
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.00
With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Beer, (beer not stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, the turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
This is my new retirement program, I call it my 401-Keg program. It's the best I can do thanks to G.W.B. and friends.