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If you had bought $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth
$49.00. With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one
year ago, drunk all the beer, then sold the cans you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and
recycle.

pk,
maybe in the states, the way recycling is done here, you'd have to pay for the $1000 worth of cans to be taken to the dump

While in the USA recently I noticed that many drinks cans/bottles carry a refundable deposit in many states but that most people chuck them in the garbage anyway... :\

Clubman,
Out of interest how much do they get.
There is a similar scheme in Holland.

S

Used to be a dime when I was there in the late 80's.

Can't remember. I think it was a nickle (5c) or dime (10c) in most states - maybe 15c in some states. Coincidentally, the dime is the only US coin containing no indication of how much it's worth and it took me a process of elimination to figure out that it was actually 10c!