While it's true we can argue back on forth on definitions between what constitutes a trader or an investor... if say, you were an unabashed long term buy and hold mentality, you may now have the ammo you need to rationalize beer as an investment.
To wit: if under a long term buy and hold strategy you had bought $1000.00 worth of NT stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00. With ENE, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00. With WCOM, you would have less than $5.00 left.
On the other hand, if you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above comparisons current long term investment advice might be best sunmed up as: Drink heavily and recycle. But please... do your own due diligence on the can/bottle return value based on which state you live. For instance in Oregon, it's 5 cents a can. I don't know where it's 10 cents.
