I got this in the email, which has been around a long time, but the message is the same even today, only with different names:
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, 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."
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