If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Nortel stock,
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 Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.

Based on the above,   my current investment advice is: