If there is a lesson to be taken from this crisis, it's a simple and old rule of economics: *there is no free lunch. *
If you had purchased $1000 worth of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1000 worth of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1000 worth of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today. But---- if you had purchased *$1000 worth of beer* one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received* $214.00. * Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.
