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- Evilblobs, on 10/08/2008, -8/+529a) you haven't lost a single dime until you sell.
b) DIVERSIFY YOUR INVESTMENT. - cecilpl, on 10/08/2008, -4/+347$1000 of beer turns into a $240 refund? That's either some cheap ass-beer or you're living in the middle of an aluminum shortage.
- dha07030, on 10/08/2008, -8/+302Wu-Tang Financial
You need to diversity yo bonds *****! - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -7/+268DIVERSIFY YO' BONDS, *****!
but seriously... I agree. - AmyVernon, on 10/07/2008, -5/+265Freddie Mac: We make foreclosure possible.
- thelif, on 10/08/2008, -8/+194bang Cindy McCain
- flyinghigh, on 10/08/2008, -3/+11430 rack of cheap beer = $10-15, let's call it $12. $1000/$12 = ~80. 80 cases * 30 cans = 2400 beers. 2400 / 10 = $240.
- koicho, on 10/07/2008, -5/+104It just gave me a good investment idea - during Depressions alcohol is the best thirst quencher, right?
Hmm just checked... Budweiser doesn't appear to be a public company... Any suggestions? - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -2/+74...and if you bought $1000 of Fannie Mae on Sept. 17th, 2008, you'd have over $2000 now....
buried as pointless. - JoshuaGross, on 10/08/2008, -1/+70The Wu Tang Clan put it best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poB8oSahSmM
- Cyrus042, on 10/08/2008, -3/+66And if you invest another 1000 today, in 5 years you could easily turn that into 10,000-25,000.
- sacherjj, on 10/08/2008, -13/+72Math is messed up. It comes to about $20 worth of Aluminum. But that wouldn't be funny or shocking, so instead of using real math, they inflate the number.
- lefthandpisces, on 10/08/2008, -2/+52WU TANG CLAN AINT NOTHIN TO ***** WITH
- valleyman86, on 10/08/2008, -3/+53Don't matter. Foreign beers are usually better anyway.
- skubiszm, on 10/08/2008, -2/+50I am going to stay with my retirement plan. Buying $1000 worth of lottery tickets.
- bieber, on 10/08/2008, -1/+47Geeze, way to look at the glass half-empty. What if you had _short sold_ $1000 of stock a year ago? :-D
- purplesawdust, on 10/08/2008, -1/+43So in theory if we invest any sum of money a year go into companies we know today to have gone to ***** we will have less money then we originally invested with? But dugg for the comparison about the beer cans.
- LaughingMan89, on 10/08/2008, -0/+42Michigan is 10¢ a can/bottle. I don't know if anywhere else is that high.
- BuddyDoQ, on 10/08/2008, -2/+43Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc
Look for: BUD
They're doing very "meh" right now though. - valleyman86, on 10/08/2008, -0/+37Meh is probably better than a ton of companies.
- gayle01, on 10/08/2008, -2/+38Invest in go-karts.
- buckrogers1965, on 10/08/2008, -0/+31She was the Paris Hilton of the 70's.
- cscalfani, on 10/08/2008, -0/+30Freddie Mac: We make foreclosures NECESSARY
- Garofoli, on 10/07/2008, -6/+31That's startling, and to think I was upset in not investing in Nintendo before the Wii came out. (Increase of 7x as it came out)
- piranhaa, on 10/08/2008, -1/+25on the other hand.. If you SHORTED the stock a year ago, the OPPOSITE would be true
- WiretapStudios, on 10/08/2008, -0/+23I work for a recycling company. Aluminum, like all metals, is paying much less now because of the economy. So your beer investment tanked as well.
- piranhaa, on 10/08/2008, -0/+23Either your math skills suck, or I don't know how to look at stock charts..
November '06 (Wii release): Stock @ ~$26
52Wk High: 78.50
Now @ $40.00
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=OTC%3ANTDOY
.. Make your conclusions - Hamletlere, on 10/08/2008, -4/+26Damn, where do you get 10¢ a can for recycling? In my state, you get paid by the pound!
- inactive, on 10/08/2008, -1/+23No, but I'm downloading more if that counts ;p
- av4rice, on 10/08/2008, -1/+22ass-beer?
- fwertz, on 10/08/2008, -3/+23Dugg for subconscious drunk driving advertisement.
- falstaff, on 10/08/2008, -3/+231 can = 0.4 oz. 2400 cans = 60 lbs.
Aluminum cans are going for about $1500/ton (best case scenario, if you have it baled and in quantity), so 60 lbs = $45 max. - Arch83, on 10/08/2008, -0/+20Ease up--Bud went out fighting!
The sale to InBev was a hostile takeover. Bigwigs at Anheuser-Busch approached Modelo (maker of Corona, etc.) in Mexico to merge, an attempt to create a combined beermaking company too large and expensive for InBev. The talks with Modelo stalled, and InBev upped its bid, assuring a sale that certainly was distasteful to many American stalwarts.
Not that I like the taste of Budweiser. Its sale is an unfortunate sign of the flagging American economic dominance. [sigh] - inactive, on 10/08/2008, -0/+19I'm taking Stephen Colbert's advice and investing in Campbell's soup stock.
- rknowles10, on 10/08/2008, -1/+20*diversify
- legendxx, on 10/08/2008, -10/+29***** Budweiser, they're not American... sold out.
- cawpin, on 10/08/2008, -0/+18No, Anheuser-Busch is a public company.
- brstilson, on 10/08/2008, -7/+25Almost EVERY stock you buy will lose money in a year. Any investor knows that if you're in the stock market for the short-term, you are going to lose money. There is no ifs, ands, or buts about it...you WILL lose money.
In fact, now is the perfect time to buy stocks in companies that didn't cause the financial meltdown but were negatively affected by it. You can believe all the doom and gloom you want, but the market isn't going away. - kingmanic, on 10/08/2008, -0/+18Then dipped 40% to come down to 4 times with further dips ahead. Still not bad. But if I could tell the future I'd be rich too. . .
- cecilpl, on 10/08/2008, -0/+18Obligatory. http://www.xkcd.com/37/
- shadowspawn, on 10/08/2008, -0/+17If you can drink it, eat it, drug it, or smoke it... keep it. otherwise sell it.
- bffoley, on 10/08/2008, -0/+17Start your own beer company. With blackjack! And hookers!
Actually forget the company and the blackjack - jaxter2010, on 06/17/2009, -1/+18Buy low, sell high.
You want to get in when everyone else is getting out. You won't make a dime following the herd. - whorunbartertwn, on 10/08/2008, -3/+20Freddie Mercury: We make a black & white leotard look good.
- nkassi, on 10/08/2008, -1/+18ameritrade.com
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Pick one and go for it. No better time to start then right now. - Cyrus042, on 10/08/2008, -0/+16It is that easy. Do you believe that Freddie Mac, as a quasi-government insurance company now being administrated by the government which backs a majority of home loans in this country, will ever go out of business? It won't because it can't. Right now the stocks are at 1.20~ down from almost 40-50 or so a year ago.
Freddie Mac stocks WILL stabilize in the future. Will it ever return to 40-50? Maybe not soon, but it very well could in 5 years. You honestly cannot lose if you start investing in some of these institutions. Even if it only goes up to 5 dollars in the next year, you're making a great investment. - jbcsee, on 10/08/2008, -0/+16It's not recycling, in many states you pay x per can/bottle and get x back when you drop them off for recycling. In California x is either $0.05 or $0.10 depending on the size of the container.
- shadus, on 10/08/2008, -0/+16Zing, it worked well for John. Over half a dozen houses, cars, own personal jet, running for the most powerful position in the world, etc...
- kingmanic, on 10/08/2008, -4/+20If by invest you mean pick up $1000 in crack from a wholesaler and if by 5 years you mean next week.
PS. If it was that easy we'd all be rich. But it's hard to say, in 5 years inflation may be so bad that $10,000 will buy you a ticket to to L.A. - Anagrama, on 10/08/2008, -0/+15I am fairly embarrassed to admit that 32 beers a day is cutting back, my friend.
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