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Title: 2008 Economic Update
Post by: Kenneth Risenhoover on October 17, 2008, 12:48:57 AM
OK Guys and Gals........I just got the following email......thought you might enjoy it!

Subject: Economic Update

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock one year ago you would have $49.00 left.

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

With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left.

      But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have $214.00 cash.

      Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle. It's called the 401-Keg.

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

Makes You Proud To Be An American doesn't it!




Title: Re: 2008 Economic Update
Post by: tkmkid on October 17, 2008, 12:58:24 AM
Nice.... that one was good.  :97-


Title: Re: 2008 Economic Update
Post by: bobn on October 17, 2008, 02:04:19 AM
 :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- :3- That is sad but also funny!  :97-


Title: Re: 2008 Economic Update
Post by: jay on October 17, 2008, 02:07:31 AM
Best quote so far from a hedge fund manager:

* "This is worse than a divorce, I've lost half my net worth and I still
have a wife",


Title: Re: 2008 Economic Update
Post by: StatFreak on October 19, 2008, 10:45:40 AM
Hmm, now where have I read a variation of this recently?   :128- :129- :128- :129-   :96-   :72-

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=504.msg4044#msg4044 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=504.msg4044#msg4044)

I guess it is circulating in several forms and they all hit home these days. I like the "401-Keg" variation in Ken's post.  :71-