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When we were young, we were told that the only way to secure our financial future was to invest in the stock market, so that we would have funds for retirement which were protected from inflation. Below is a list of stocks that either have ceased to exist, or have dropped more than 90% compared to their normal price. It is therefore hard to see how the average buy and hold investor could ever have broken even, let alone held up against inflation. Most investors would have better odds at a casino!
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Famous names that have fallen by the way side:
Compaq
E.F.Hutton
PaineWebber
Merry-Go-Round
MCI WorldCom
Eastern Airlines
Enron
Woolworth's
PanAm
Standard Oil
The Pullman Co.
Arthur Andersen
General Foods Corp.
TWA
DeLorean Motor Corp
Lionel Corp
Adelphia
Pets.com
Bear Stearns
Beatrice Food Products
Nortel
General Motors
Here is a small selection of stocks I used to follow over the past 10 years. What became of these stocks, surely they did not all go Ch11?
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Just think how many people lost REAL money buying and holding when those companies went down!
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