If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1000.With World Com, you would have less than $5.00 left.If you had purchased $1000.00 of Delta Airlines stock you would have $49.00 left.If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.But, if you had purchased $1000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for recycling, you would have $214.07.Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.