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Timshel

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Weapons and canned goods.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/...=10&year=2008&base_name=question_of_the_day_8

Famously, Campbell Soup's stock did pretty well on Monday, the day the market crashed. So apparently did shares of the company that makes tazers (maybe because crime goes up during recessions?). Jake at Econompic Data offers a graph:

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Put on your broker hats: What are some other stocks or products that do well when the economy nosedives? Build the end-of-the-world portfolio.
 
RStringfield said:
Weapons and canned goods.

http://www.prospect.org/csnc/blogs/...=10&year=2008&base_name=question_of_the_day_8

Famously, Campbell Soup's stock did pretty well on Monday, the day the market crashed. So apparently did shares of the company that makes tazers (maybe because crime goes up during recessions?). Jake at Econompic Data offers a graph:

armstocks.png


Put on your broker hats: What are some other stocks or products that do well when the economy nosedives? Build the end-of-the-world portfolio.
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we don't need no stinking portfolio---we have hippies to hunt.
 
Security products, you know, cameras, access control, burglary systems. In uncertain times, companies like Honeywell and Pelco do pretty well. And I'm one of their field guys. Muhuhaaaaa! I've got job security bitches.
 
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