[OT] Investment Advice for the New Era

[Gerald Combs]

On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Seth Dimbert wrote:

> If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now
> be worth $49.00.
> 
> With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00. 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 10 cent
> deposit, you would have $214.00.

...and if you spent the $214.00 on more Budweiser, and returned _those_
cans you'd have $45.79, which still beats Enron.