If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.   
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.    
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.   
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 left.!    
And, If you had purchased United Airlines stock, you would have nothing 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 $214.00.   
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily, and then recycle.   
This is called the 401-Keg Plan.