The Vilisar Times

The life and times of Ronald and Kathleen and our voyages aboard S/V Vilisar, a 34.5-foot wooden Wm-Atkin-designed sailing cutter launched in Victoria, BC, Canada, in 1974. Since we moved aboard in 2001 Vilisar has been to Alaska, British Columbia, California, Mexico, The Galapagos and mainland Ecuador, Panama and Costa Rica.

Saturday, October 11, 2008



NEW ASPECTS OF THE WORLDWIDE FINANCIAL CRISIS
Bahía de Caráquez, Ecuador, Saturday, 11 October 2008


For those of you watching your portfolios head down the drain, this is a reminder that there may be other ways of looking at statistics.

If, for example, you had purchased $1,000 of shares in Delta Airlines one year ago, you would of course have only $49.00 today. If you had purchased $1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you have about $33.00 today. If you purchased $1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have $0.00 today. Not good, we can agree.

On the other hand, if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer a year ago, drunk all the beer, then turned in the aluminium cans for a recycling refund, you would have received $214.00. Based upon the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg.

A recent study also determined that, almost unbelievably, the average American walks about 900 miles a year, while another study found that Americans drink on the average 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that Americans are getting about 41 miles to the gallon!

Makes you proud to be an American, doesn’t it?

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