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| Help for these tough financial times!!! (Read 296 times) |
| view log LSD King |
posted: 10/8/2008 at 4:14 PM |
THINK ABOUT THIS:
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago,
you will have $49.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG
one year ago, you will have $33.00 today.
If you had purchased $1,000 of
shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0.00 today.
But,
if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the
beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will
have received a $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment
plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg. A recent
study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of
alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41
miles to the gallon! Makes you proud to be an American!
I'm just sayin'. |
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| view log Masters Clydesdale |
posted: 10/8/2008 at 4:50 PM
modified: 10/8/2008 at 4:51 PM |
| I have seen this but I suspect the aluminum would be worth more like $50. The bums I see pushing carts full of this metal don't seem to be reaping the rewards. But it could be they have spent too much of their money reinvesting in more beer only to recieve fewer and fewer returns. Any experienced investor will tell you that repeatedly buying a declining stock is not wise. But these folks do fit the mold of contrarion investors. Hell I haven't worn clothes like that since the grunge 90's days. |
| I don't know how to cut down a Christmas tree. When I look at it, I hope that it just falls down. - Sally Brown |
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| view log Happy Howl-idays |
posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:40 AM |
This is hysterical.
Makes me feel much better after getting my quarterly investment statement in the mail and seeing how much I lost recently. But others are way worse off than me, so I'll drink to that. |
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posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:51 AM |
| I met with our financial advisor today for a planning meeting we scheduled awhile back. All I can say is that DS16 better start setting some world records in running real quick if he expects to go to college! Yikes. |
| Maine Coast HM, September 21 |
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| view log Blaine Moore |
posted: 10/9/2008 at 12:54 AM |
Sorry to all the people nearing retirement or making a large expenditure such as sending a kid to school, but I don't mind this recession - it lets me buy into the market at a discount. What they don't tell you about the great depression is the large number of millionaires that were made during those years; my guess is that this one is going to build a lot of billionaires.
As for the original post - very funny! I'll have to pass that on. |
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| view log Can't run? Go play. |
posted: 10/9/2008 at 1:33 AM |
Well done, Richard. Thanks for the lightened enlightenment.  |
Rick
"The will to win means nothing without the will to prepare." - Juma Ikangaa
"I wanna go fast." Ricky Bobby
runningforcassy.blogspot.com
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| view log Dave |
posted: 10/9/2008 at 1:43 AM |
A bit more levity in the face of all the bad news:
http://www.businesspundit.com/sub-prime/
This is both educational and funny as heck a the end. Its quite a few slides but worth it. |
I ran a mile and I liked it, liked it, liked it.
dgb2n@yahoo.com
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| view log LSD King |
posted: 10/9/2008 at 10:09 AM |
Quote from rvelich on 10/9/2008 at 1:33 AM:Well done, Richard. Thanks for the lightened enlightenment.
Hey Rick
Are you running the Randy's Festival 10 miler? I'm bringing some of my soccer players to run. My knees are still kinda bad, so I'll run slow. Hope to see you there. |
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