Preserved Topic: Your Money and you.

If you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one

year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.

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

With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank all of it, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.

hehe!!! That's good! I like your thinking!

Later,
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~Binary is best~

If you had bought $1000 of microshaft shares in 1985, they owuld be worth $79,000 today.

dammit!

Koan 63, written on the wall of cell number 250:
Those who Believe
Can
Those who Try
Do
Those who Love
Live

Im going to the liquor store. I gotta start my retirement fund.

Hell, I better drink twice as much ...I might have to put some kids through school.

I think $1000 worth of MS would probably be worth considerably more than that considering stock splits.

yea my mutual funds dropped like 3 grand, and it was only 5 grand altogether to start with that is before all the financial troubles and planes going into buildings....

that's running at 1985's way of doing things though...several million would be more like it, but what's 2 million dollars or so between friends?

Well you got me interested Skaarjj so I did a little research. Now if my math is halfway correct if you had purchased $1000 worth of shares at $21 at their IPO you would not have 6857 shares worth approx. $295,000. Not to shabby. But if you had sold your stock around November of 2000 when its price peaked at approx. $120 it would have been worth almost $823,000. Now if you decided to reinvest all of that $823,000 in Microsoft tomarrow you could purchase over 19,000 shares of stock.

Now this is the fun one, I couldn't find what Coca-Cola's IPO was but lets say it was $1 which is reasonable for 1919 I think. If you puchased $1000 worth at $1 each you would now have 4,608,000 shares worth $215,884,000 and thats not including dividend reinvestment which would have puchased thousands more shares.

Ah if only I had a time machine.

In my first year at university my roommate and I drank Mountain Dew and Dr. Pepper like water. We had enough cans to build a wall covering our entire (very large) window--two layers deep (our room was very warm in the winter). At the end of the semester, we turned them all in for the deposit (which was, incidentally, 5 cents--when did it become 10 cents?). And what did we do with our hard-earned money? We bought a six-pack of Dew, a six-pack of Dr. P, and a bag of pretzels--and we began working on next semester's wall.

To this day I am amazed that my body didn't just give up on me.