Investment Advice

[Valigator]

>>INVESTING FOR YOUR RETIREMENT:
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>>If you had purchased $1000.00 of
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>>Nortel stock
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>>one year ago, it would now be worth
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>>$49.00
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>>.
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>>-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O
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>>With
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>>Enron,
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>>you would have had
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>>$16.50
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>>left of the original $1,000.00.
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>>!
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>>-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O
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>>With
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>>WorldCom,
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>>you would have had less than
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>>$5.00
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>>left.
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>>-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-
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>>But, if you had purchased
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>>$1,000.00
>>worth of
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>>Beer one year ago,
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>>drank all the beer,
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>>then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND,
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>>you would have had
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>>$214.00.
>>-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
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>>Based on the above,
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>>current investment advice is to
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>>drink heavily and
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>>recycle.

[popplecop]

Where were you 17 years ago when I retired? Thankfully didn't have any of those stocks.