March 20, 2009
If you purchased $1,000 of AIG stock one year ago, you would have $42 left.
With a Lehman investment, you would have $6.60 left.
With Fannie or Freddie, you would have less than $5 today.
But if you purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the deposit REFUND, you would have $214.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
It's called the 401-Keg plan
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