If you had bought $1,000 worth of Lehman Brothers shares in 2007, a year later they would have been worth nothing. If you had purchased $1,000 worth of AIG shares in 2007, a year later they would have been worth around $30. If you had invested $1,000 in Delta Airlines in 2007, a year later it would have been worth around $49. If you had bought $1,000 worth of beer, drunk it all, then taken the empty cans to an aluminium recycling plant, you would have received $214. So based on the above statistics, in the current economic climate the soundest investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle. A man told his workmate excitedly: "I've just won the jackpot in the Zimbabwe lottery. They tell me that if I hurry, I'll have enough money to buy next week's ticket."