Fun Facts For Stock Market Investors

(7/20/02)  With the market going down the toilet and the average worker stuck in their 401k plan shoved down their throat by the same corporations that took away their pension plans and are now ripping them off, I thought a bit of humor might be in order.

The following numbers are from online financial reporting sources.

If you had $1000 in Enron stock on the day Dubya was inaugurated, you would have had 24.02 shares which would be worth $2.16 today.

If you had $1000 in WorldCom stock on the day Dubya was inaugurated, you would have had 13.96 shares which would be worth $1.31 today.

If you had $1000 in XO Communications stock on the day Dubya was inaugurated, you would have had 20 shares of stock which would be worth $6.00 today.

However, if you lived in California and would have gone out on Inauguration Day and bought $1000 worth of Budweiser beer, you would have had 75 cases of beer including the 10 cent deposit (this assumes you could have found the beer on sale for $10.95 per case).  You could have drank the beer over the last 2 years, enjoying every last drop of it, and then taken the cans back for the deposit and still have $180 in your pocket.

This is definitely the best solution when you have a pretzeldent that drives you to drinkin'.