Worth a look

[albert smith 803]

 

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 (BA) 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.

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Northern Rock thirteen years ago, you would have £0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago at Tesco’s, drank all the beer, then taken the aluminium cans to the scrap metal dealer, you would have received a £214.00.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. A recent study found that the average Briton walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Britons drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Britons get about 41 miles to the gallon!

Makes you proud to be British.

[Brew 5,429]

Amusing Albert, not true but amusing...     

[jonab 1,644]

Five or so years ago I was advised to invest in rhodium metal. At the time it was about €900/ozt. In that time the price has been up in the €10,000/ozt and is currently (even amongst all of this world turmoil) €6,000/ozt. In a similar time period, gold ("the" standard) had gone up from about the same starting level €900/ozt to €1,586/ozt (this morning's price on the Paris metals market).