If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock two years ago, you would have $49.00 left. With Merrill Lynch, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00. With Lehman Brothers, you would probably have nothing, but if you were lucky, less than $5.00 left.
However, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the bottles and cans for the recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash. Based on the above, the best current investment advice: drink heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg plan.
Also, in other news: A recent study found, the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found Americans drink, on the average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon.
