If you had bought 1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth 49. With Enron, you would have 16 of the original 1,000. With WorldCom, you would have less than 5 left. If you had bought 1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the deposit,

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