The investment counselor was studying his client's accounts. The bear market was at a five year low with no end in sight. What's worse, recent corporate scandals had shaken the faith of many investors and there were talks of law suits against brokers. The fellow was clearly ready for new approaches and was prepared to try his best.
"Let's see," he began, "if you had bought $1000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
"With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.
"With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
"If, however, you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Pepsi (the soda, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the soda, then turned in the bottles for a 5 cent deposit, you would have $107.00.
"Based on my careful analysis," he concluded, "my current investment outlook calls for drinking Pepsi heavily and recycling ..."
----------------A Final Thought ...
"October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February."
- Mark Twain (1835–1910), U.S. author