From Dora:<\/p>\n
If you had purchased $1000.00 <\/strong>of Nortel<\/em> stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With Enron<\/em>, you would have had $16.50<\/strong> left of the original $1000.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n With WorldCom<\/em>, you would have had less than $5.00<\/strong> left.<\/p>\n If you had purchased $1000 <\/strong>of Delta Air Lines <\/em>stock you would have $49.00<\/strong> left.<\/p>\n But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 <\/strong>worth of beer\/wine<\/em> one year ago, drank all the beer\/wine, then turned in the cans\/bottles for the aluminum recycling REFUND, you would have had $214.00<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Let people you care about know… and tell them to Start<\/strong> Now!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" From Dora: If you had purchased $1000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With Enron, you would have had $16.50 left of the original $1000.00. With WorldCom, you would have had less than $5.00 left. If you had purchased $1000 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have $49.00 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[50,179,142,1926,140,250,139,1947,138,249,248,32,141],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drink","tag-beer","tag-business","tag-delta","tag-drink","tag-enron","tag-market","tag-nortel","tag-retirement","tag-saving","tag-stock","tag-stock-market","tag-wine","tag-worldcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.timony.com\/jokes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily<\/em> and recycle<\/em>.<\/h3>\n