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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
If you had purchased $1000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago,
you would have $49.00 today!

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would
have $33.00 today.

If you had purchased $1000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago,
you would have $0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased $1000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all
the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for the recycling refund,
you would have received $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink
heavily & recycle.

It is called the 401-Keg.

And as a bonus…

A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a
year. Another study found that on average Americans drink 22 gallons of
alcohol a year. That means that the average American gets about 41
miles to the gallon!

Makes you proud to be an American!
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#4 · (Edited by Moderator)
If you had bet $ 1,000 in January ..that Mitt Romney would be the Republican Party nominee for President,
you would have $ 2,540 on August 31 , no beer or re-cycling needed . Told you Repubs that back in January ( any takers ?). Show me a man who says he never gets a break , and i'll show you a man who never takes a chance . I'm just a liberal punter, but I do know how to maximiize my short term investments . I woudn't recommend repeating that bet on that particular horse on Nov. 6 ,though . Buena Suerte, amigos y amigas . : )
 
#5 ·
Momento: No estoy seguro de que esta elección será de la suerte, pero la presciencia, la previsión, la visión, el conocimiento y la especulación.

En la medida en que puede prescindirse de la ideología, e ignoran los medios de comunicación (y Joe Lyddon), todos vamos a estar mejor.

Si.
Esa.
 
#6 ·
Moment - you could actually have made that bet in Vegas…..they have the odds and bookmaking for just about any outcome of anything happening if you were willing to give them a wager.

So did you make any money on your prediction?
 
#13 ·
That joke worked better in 2009, because if you invested $1000.00 in Delta a year ago, you would have made ten percent on your investment, on AIG about two percent, and Lehman Brothers you couldn't really call that an investment last year. May sixth 2009 the DOW was at 6626 today 13204.
Doesn't mean that I am not investing in beer though, but when I do it's in bottles so I miss out on the return from selling the aluminum. I guess you could say, that when it comes to investing in beer, I am more of a short term return guy.
 
#16 ·
Ha! We get the same mileage out of Moxie here in Maine.

How about Apple stock. In 1996 they were on the verge of bankruptcy…. about $12/share. What is it now $600 or so? yesterday they posted another blockbuster quarter. Sold 40 million iphones in 4 months. Analysts predict it to be the first Trillion dollar company in about a year. I specifically remember thinking about buying stock in the late 90's… never did. Now that's mileage!
 
#21 ·
Good question Steve, I would also be curious. But then again, I know better than to let exhaust run in tightly closed spaces. Carbon Monoxide or Methane exhaust, both can be deadly under the right circumstances…
 
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