Good investments

[Muad'Dib]

Now that you’ve pulled all your money out of what used to be your bank, you need a new investment strategy. And being environmentally conscious, you’d like your strategy to be colored green. So here’s the deal, based on a new strategy that’s making its rounds on the web.

If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago,you would have $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have $33.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 today.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drunk all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for recycling refund, you would receive $214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily and recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.

Also bear in mind that a recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, we get about 41 miles to the gallon! Makes you proud to be an American!

[Hat tip to Zsuzsa Csergo]

[Ferrus]

Or just buy bonds.

[D33P7HR047]

I was certainly considering buying a used vehicle for the simple reason, that it is fairly absurd to invest 6+ years of your life intent on something that has diminishing returns on investment, and in 4 years will be practically unsaleable for 1/4 of what you end up paying for it (practically the added cost of financing).

One website prefers buying used cars and saving up money that would end up being spent on a new vehicle, to then be used to buy a newer and better (used) vehicle. Investing the saved money otherwise on a mutual fund (though not a popular idea with a declining economy, which this video was made previous to):

Dave Ramsey - "Free Cars, Retire a Millionaire" Flash video (http://www.daveramsey.com/media/flash/elearning/drive-free/player.html)

Truth about Mutual Funds (http://www.fool.com/mutualfunds/choosing/choosing01.htm) - Which I suspect is accurate and not as hopeful as the flash video suggests.

I think Dave Ramsey grew up when investing in the stock market via Mutual Funds would undoubtedly yield dividends, no matter how (un)successful the handler of the Mutual Fund was.

Cash levels with Mutual Funds are declining against S&P500 (http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/08/mutual_funds_ca.html)

Though I do like the idea of taking my recycling collection to a recycling center that pays out. I could certainly profit from such a place. And I do actually agree with Penn and Teller (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1444391672891013193#) on the absurdity of recycling (other than aluminum.)

Perhaps Capitalism is bound to fail, in N. American society.