4 Recession Resilient Stocks to Ride Out the Storm

I would also add Coca-Cola to this list.

Ron Paul gets 7 thumbs down? That's one reason why I left. Go vote in a fascist Repub or a commie dem. You will get a strongman though who will trample rights. Ron Paul and those who follow the constitution as our forefathers laid it out are the last great hope. It's too late I am afraid. Oh the counter argument is America always pulls through. Germans said that in 1933 but it took 12 years of hell before they did. Welcome to hell my fellow Americans. You're going to find out how most of the rest of the world lives then WWIII. Don't take my word for it though. Turn off the tv and start reading history and for god's sake think for yourself...no MSNBC, FOX etc...

Retired military officer living abroad

I think I just head a large popping sound over in the silver market . . .

brass and lead, don't eat much and might be handy to have around

4 recession resistant proof stocks?
I'm sure there are many others that will hold up rather well (if the economy sinks).
That only leaves about 12000+ other stocks that will tank if we hit a recession.
Nice, warm fuzzy feeling.
Thanks goodness there's buy and hold until the politicians with there banking buddies can straighten the economy out.
Whew!... that's a comfort to know, I was starting to get some frown lines from all the disturbing headlines.

I have always been an income investor and hold much of what Thad suggests and then some. Switched everything into ING's Sharebuilder Had this been a normal downturn, I would be in with both hands buying more and looking forward to retirement with a nice income created by my "wise" investing. However, this is not your grandpa's recession. We never had $15 trillion in debt. We are headed towards a major catastrophe. Dividends will be cut, prices will plunge and our dollar will be next to worthless. As a result, I am beginning to diversify into reverse ETF's, phisical gold and silver, a few baskets of foreign currency as well as keeping maybe 12 core dividend holdings. MLP's especially, This is NOT part of a normal cycle. Those who tell us to "ride it out" like we have done in the past are going to be swept away. Sad to say.

PM has already triggered his $64 stop loss on Friday, so I guess its down to 3 stocks to ride out the bear market with... lol

The 5th most resiliant holding is called cash money!

only game in town.

This is why people loose money. Listening to pundits that don't understand the first thing about investing in dividend growth stocks known has buy and hold forever and live off the dividends. This is what your core holdings should look like:

PG
CLX
CL
JNJ
GIS
K
MCD
CVX
PM
XOM
PEP
KO
HSY
HNZ
ED
D
EMR
etc...

I am not an expert by a long shot. That being said, I am mostly sitting on the sidelines for now. Maybe from now on. I do own MCD and have a stop sell order in all of the time. As it edges up, move the stop up. Bought Wendy's. Who knows, could be a turn around. Own oil. Other than that, corporate bonds.

PM stop loss at $64? Well shucks, it's already a loss.

Wait until October 19 th. Beige Book report , till then it's all " smoke n' mirrors "

if you really want to ride out the storm, get out of stocks all the way. it's not worth trying to find winners during a storm. if you insist on trying to make money in a bear market, you might as well just focus on the big losers and either short or buy some puts.

Smith and Wesson would top my list.

not to rain on Simon's parade, but have you looked at AZO's balance sheet?
They have financed all their growth with DEBT. You have NEGATIVE EQUITY as a shareholder.
300billion, and they just borrowed another 200 million with the OK for another 200 million.
while yes their buybacks have caused the stock to go higher so Eddie can sell out with a profit,
the long-term is BAD. When the debts come due and buybacks stop, stock plummets.
Plus NO DIVIDEND. And finally, this was the play in 2009-10, to think it does it again is folly.

Great picks...... My question beyond stocks is: "Which country is the most solvent that has it's own currency? Which currency stands to benefit most from everyone else's excesses?"

There is one thing also that you can count on......data costs across the board will be going up. All smartphone carriers, all internet providers......will be congruently and price fixing concurrently....raising fees. As we move to the cloud, start streaming all content...getting hogged out by Facebook traffic and new collision problems.....the guys who own the tollroads will be in a position to control the sxpansion. For the loss of cable subscribers as their customers stream over IP......the losses will have to be offset by increased internet access fees. Same with satelite....becuase the content will come through IP rather than satelite TV. Facebook growth is ultimately going to be contolled by wireless and hardwire providers...no question. You can't do it without a connection.......and noone seems to see this. Facebook becomes "not free" very quickly once the providers decide to jack the monthly price of access. The first step was to ax unlimited data plans. Next.....price increases.....to cover build out for exponential traffic from Facebbok, Netflix, Amazon, and all the other new cloud demnds. Verizon, Time Warner, Comcast, Dish, Direct...all good long bets. AT+T questionable. Level 3 exceptional.

Right on Jeff! Now you are talking! Thumbs way up! Have a great weekend! Frank out!

Maybe this article should have been posted a couple of weeks earlier.