· If you had bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would be worth $49.

· With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1000.

· With the World-com, you would have less than $5 left.

· If you had bought $1000 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.

Coca-cola may have returned even more on the investment than Bud!