ImUrOBGYN Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin R. Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 The only investment I partake in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHaze Posted May 6, 2008 Report Share Posted May 6, 2008 Hahaha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sol740 Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 LOL, or you could take my investment approach. Keep your eggs in multiple baskets that way if any one should fail, you have fallbacks ... Beer, Whiskey, Wine, Scotch, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Akula Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Holy older than the internet batman... $1000 per share at about $20/share is 50 shares, no? NT closed today over $8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tractor Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Thats pretty sad, but that is about as bad as it could get. If you'd bought $1000 of google you'd be up about 25%, but thats a pretty good stock most of the time. Oh and you'd have been able to afford 2 shares 1 year ago. Now you would only be able to buy 1 with $1000. Evan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LJ Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Thats pretty sad, but that is about as bad as it could get. If you'd bought $1000 of google you'd be up about 25%, but thats a pretty good stock most of the time. Oh and you'd have been able to afford 2 shares 1 year ago. Now you would only be able to buy 1 with $1000. Evan you could buy 1/130 of a Berkshire Hathaway share Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptn janks Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 if you bought 10,000 worth of MS in 1986, it would be worth 6.3 million today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImUrOBGYN Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Holy older than the internet batman... $1000 per share at about $20/share is 50 shares, no? NT closed today over $8. Yes, it's old. Not the point. If you'd like, feel free to update it and repost it. Or maybe, just hang it up on your wall until you feel better about yourself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokin5s Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 if you would have invested 1k in oil prices, you'd have 10k right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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