If you had purchased $1,000.00 of United Airlines stock one year ago, it would now be worth $70.00.
 
With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
 
With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.
 
If you had purchased $1,000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have  $49.00 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 had $214.00.
 
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
 
It's called the 401-Keg