Just found this on another site...
Financial Advice in these dark times.
If you had purchased $1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago, it would now be worth $4.95.
With HBOS, earlier this week, your $1000 would have been worth $16.50.
$1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than $5.
But if you bought $1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminum recycling plant, you would get $214.
So, based on the above statistics, the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
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