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While the economy continues to provide all sorts of bad news, there is a sort of silver lining...if one is willing to accept a sizeable short-term risk, there are a lot of potential long term rewards for a patient investor.

That said, if someone were to hand you $1000 and told you you had to invest the money, what company(-ies) would you buy into?
Before anyone mentions it, the thread title is deliberately misspelled.

General Electric. Their stock is at its lowest price since its creation, and they own thousands of other major companies. When the rebound happens, the stock price will rocket back up again.

Campbells Soup

One of the few companies doing better in the economic crisis than before.

People stop going to restaurants and buy soup instead

Well, drugs, prostitution and guns always work according to my sources.:p

The thing is that normally when you something that seems like a future industry it is already to late to invest...to gain a lot of cash you have to be able to loose a lot of cash.

I guess right now the medical industry could be a could choice, or other companies in the chemistry sector. They have had a bit of down but since people always need medicines there will always be a market. Also, sometime in the future the car industry is a good choice, although perhaps not right now :)

Chocolate and gambling

Wait a few months, then I'll be able to buy a house with it.

Oh. And there's no silver lining to the recession. We're all going to be unemployed, then we'll starve and die :)

I agree with the GE statement made earlier by another poster. Our investment club has taken advantage of its low price recently. However, I do not like the risk of individual stocks so I invest in index funds and exchange traded funds. In fact I just did so about an hour ago.

Thank you for giving me an excuse to post this comic:

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That said, if someone were to hand you $1000 and told you you had to invest the money, what company(-ies) would you buy into?
I wouldn't, I'd stick it on an index tracker.

Open a Savings Account.

Well, Mr. Long-Term Investor himself bought call options for the S&P500 that don't fall due for years. If you have the capital to take the intermediate hits (or you keep the leverage to a minimum, I guess), that might be an idea.

Cash is an asset class too.