Very dubious. The stock losses are real enough, but can $1000 of beer be worth over $200? At $3 per six pack of the cheap stuff, that would be 2000 cans. I think it takes 30 or so cans to make a pound (or so that is what I remember from Boy Scount aluminum can collection way back when). So we would have 67 pounds of aluminum. Metalprices.com quotes it at $1 a pound for ingots -- and there is a little work to get a pile of cans back to being an ingot and then the scrap dealer needs his margin.

So I would be surprised if you could get more than $30 for you $1000 of beer.

Unless maybe your state has a can deposit. In that case, you just end up drinking $200 less beer, but you would have your money still. But then you would not have really spent $1000 on beer. To do this you would have to take the deposit and cycle it around until you purchased your last beer -- then you would have some change

A much better question would be how much pussy you could have gotten for $1000. Here the strategies are varied. Maybe you still buy beer or fancier drinks. Maybe you oredr Rohypnol from Mexico. Maybe you just buy it outright. The answer should be between 2 and 20 depending on the variables and how good looking you are to start with.

On the otherhand, with WaMu shares, for example, you would have only gotten fucked once.