Current thinking on the market

[Sara S]

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

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original
$1000.

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

If you had purchased $1000.00 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 $1000.00 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.

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

[Zeno Swijtink]

A good joke but are the numbers correct? 60 cents a pound for aluminum cans is a good deal. So $214 would require over 350 pounds of the metal. If we accept that 34 beer cans make a pound of aluminum $1000 would buy us 11900 cans of beer, that is less than ten cent for a can of beer.

Where do you buy your beer?

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

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original
$1000.

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

If you had purchased $1000.00 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 $1000.00 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.

Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

[RichT]

A good joke but are the numbers correct? 60 cents a pound for aluminum cans is a good deal. So $214 would require over 350 pounds of the metal. If we accept that 34 beer cans make a pound of aluminum $1000 would buy us 11900 cans of beer, that is less than ten cent for a can of beer.

Where do you buy your beer?

You can find some pretty cheap beer in the South (Red, White & Blue, Lone Star). I would not call it an investment, though.