Five recession-proof stocks from an investment pro

recession proof guess we haven't learned yet love the fact people think any economy not having a stable base is safe !!!!>without something to base it's value on it is worth nothing (base ie:gold,silver,diamonds)

Thanks for the theft Geithner and Obama.

Thanks for your theft Frieda

Apple recession proof...maybe right now as long as they keep producing. I can remember when Sony was 'recession proof'. Not a smart pick.

I don't know about those,but Herbalife has had 20 quarters of double digit growth. I started a home base business a little over a year ago, and my business made money last year. WE ARE RESESSION PROOF!!!

International war criminal Dick Cheney's assassination ring was such a big hit, that he is opening up the Parallax Corporation to take secret assassination rings into the private sector. With Karl Rove and Rupert Murdoch on the board of directors, stock in Parallax is certainly recession proof.

Recession proof?? Ya gotta be kidding. You ain't ain't seen nuttin yet. Wait till the Obama bubble pops. Within two years no one will say they voted for OBAMA.

Apple Computer? Are you kidding? You have to HAVE money to buy a computer or an electronic gadget. If 100,000 people with comfortable salaries lose their jobs, they're going to be buying GROCERIES.

the fed ( a private bank ) is issuing notes ( dollars ) at a rate / dilution factor that the stock market will need to go to 25,000 just to have the value it had when it was at 13,000. those with 401ks aren't smart enough to know any better

I cannot imagine Coca-Cola Corp. not on this list. Sure cost a lot less to buy a soda than a computer.

I would add tobacco stock and makeup stock. Women are always going to try and make themselves look better no matter how bad the economy is. Look at some of those poor countries in South America. They can barely afford food but they will still buy makeup. Avon is a good stock. Also, you can never go wrong with Philip Morris. People need to smoke to relax and get through this terrible economy.

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There will be no such thing as a recession proof stock..how can there be..as Obomma and his people keep spending billions and trillions the scale of the UP RAISE will be so great that in the year 2017 the Nation Debt will be higher than the National Budget, a tune of 20 trillion dollors. Taxes will raised all accross the board, and stock profit taxes will over weight the middle investor to the point it won,t be worth it to invest. The cost of medicare benifits and SS retirement will reach trillions of dollors by that time, people would be better off investing in some thing else instead of stocks. Even the big investors see it comming, when it hits 2017 you will need billions to invest to even make any good profit, in the stock market. That leaves out the middle and small investors.

The stock market is dead and will be for a very long time, and maybe never come back. People better get this in there heads and start working on alterative ways to make money in this game. All the market has been doing is going up and down and not holding any kind of gains. The money that millions of people lost is in the loss coloumn, only hedge funders are making anything now. Even if the market was to come back AT FULL STEAM it would take a 4 year HIGH to even break even for most envestors. Making 10 cents a share is not every good investing even if you buy a lot of them. There still is costs involved, and we all know that the market will not maguially bounce back in the next 6 months to a steady all time HIGH to regain any kind of looses. 401k,s are in the tolit, it took millions of investors 20 years of a booming market to make that money..and like i said only a dumy would think that will ever happen again, because the Goverment knows it will lead to another depression, and they will be watching close from now on. The people that made money got in for the past 30 years made tons and GOT OUT before the crash. The others are bitting the bullet of a huge loss, and crying at there depleated funds. The market is dead for many years if not for good, and will have to be restructured.

During the Reagon recession when he pumped 713 billion to simulate the USA, i saw the time to invest in teck stocks as good and did small amounts, a lot of them when threw the roof and i made a good buck on my return, I SOLD all of them and bought cheap vacant lots in Fl. i bought as many as i could from the teck stock profits ( many lots for $500.00 to $1,000.00 ea.) after a couple yrs. the Fl. land from out of the USA investors BOOOMED and i sold many of those $1,000.00 lots for $25,000.00 to $50,000 each FAST all day long my realtor LOVED ME for the commisions they made. I made a small fortune. The rule of thump is not to keep all eggs in one basket like all your money in the stock market. Buy other things if you have a good hunch on it, buy some Gold Coins, Silver coins, its bound to go up and double your money when you sell at high price. Theres gold and silver mine stocks, check to see how they are doing in product and whats on the future for that mine, and there is tons of other wild envestments other than stock that could make you a lot of money. I knew one guy that went in with a group of investors and bought thousands of State lottery tickets, each week and WHEN THEY WON THEY WON BIG some times but they had tons of little wins also. My last buy in the stocks was a year and 1/2 ago, i resurched FOOD during a recession and i bought Cambels soups, progresso soups, and other ready made lunch and dinner companys, and i made money on those stocks..Cambels soups went up $1.35 a share a couple times and so did Progresso soups, and my other stocks in food went up while all other stocks were falling into the tolit. Move around, look around and Listen when people speek you can pick up some good tips where to invest money and make money in a recession. ( o buy the way buying soup company stocks is tricky right now they have gone up i bought when they were low) you never know they night go higher, in food products, check some out.

Think out of the box some times everyone wants to go with the BIG NAME stocks, they are high and you need tons of cash to make any return. My Idea of a good return is if when i bought Pure Gold coins back when for $200.00 each and in a few years sold each one of those coins for $1,000.00 each, a $800.00 profit each with out paying anyone to make the transaction. That isn,t liky to happen again, they will go up but how much is anyones guess. If your a small investor look at prepared food companys, healty food companys..more and more by the Millions of office workers are not going out to eat lunch like the past ..they are bringing in to microwave prepared foods to eat at work, this trend will stay in play for a while because millions of people are cuttin corners to save a fwe bucks..Check out canned food, and ready made food companys stock, look at the past 2 year grafts and then deside, read what they are making that is new see if you think it will sell, and check out the price of the food to the public. The time to buy these stocks WAS YESTERDAY but there is still wiggling room out there with some of these companys, making newer products to sell during a recession. Remember Buffit bought a Chueing Gum company know they will sell trillions of packs of gum, and candy because people will endulge themselfs with little cost to them. A pack og Gum, a Bag of Candy is another product people will buy in a Recession, before the Stake and Lobster like the past 30 years.

I was reading about the layoff at GM and thought it would be a good idea for one to start building a recession proof career or business to lead a more secure life.

Something interesting I would like to share is that defense contracting has good financial opportunities for all and can give you a steady flow of big income. Its something one can do with the right guidance and tips and make good money even during the recession.