If you bought $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would have $49.00 today. If you bought $1,000 of shares in AIG, you would have $33.00 today. If you bought $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers, you would have $0.00 today. But, if you bought $1,000 worth of beer... Drank all the beer and turned in the aluminum cans for recycling, you would have $214.00 today. Therefore the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It's called the 401-Keg