Do the math....
If you bought $1000 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it
would now be worth $49. With Enron, you would have $16. With Worldcom, you
would have less than $5.00 left.

If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of beer, drank all the beer, then turned in
the cans for the refund, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.