If you purchased $1.000.00 of Nortel Stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.50

With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00

With WorldCom, you would have has less that $5.00 left

If you purchased $1,000.00 worth of Delta Air Lines Stock, you would have $49.50 left.

BUT - if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of wine one year ago,

Drunk all of the wine,

Then turned in the bottles for recycling refund,

you would have $214.00

Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.