An amazing piece of financial analysis has been circulating by email recently.
If you had purchased $1,000 worth of AIG stock a year ago, you would have $44.34 left.
With Wachovia, you would have had $54.74 left of the original $1,000.
With Lehman, you would have had $0.00

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