If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

With Enron, you would now have $16.50 left.

With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

However, if you had bought $1000.00 worth or Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle!