If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you will have $49. 00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you will have $33. 00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you will have $0. 00 today. But, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you will have received $214. 00. Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg Plan . 
