Who & What do you think will be recession -proof?

I was thinking about this question the other day and here’s my partial list. Alot will depend on the length and severity of the recession or depression though.

• Alberta and BC (due to pending Olympics) over Ontario,
• Canada more so then the USA,
• Eventually, the Euro and the Canadian dollar over the US dollar ( the longer the recession gets)
• the Creative and Service class (more prone) over the working class,  
• the US military and military spending (in the USA, China  and Israel at least , not Russia),
• USA government deficit spending, (makes you wonder how far and long it can go?)
• arms trading and manufacturing, Odd you don't hear about arms manufacturers crying for governments bailouts because banks have stopped extending credit lines to them, do you?
• Somali pirates,
• SPAM the meat and the internet scourge,
• Walmart and McDonald’s (so far, but watch for drop/collapse in ocean maritime trade  to tell you if  Walmart is headed for trouble)
• Cash-flush businesses who anticipated the recession who will be in a position to  buy up fire-sale competitors as they go out of business
• Easian auto makers over North American auto manufacturers
• New infrastructure projects (roads, electric grid, bridges, sewers, water ) but not oil/ gas pipelines
• Inshoring or back-shoring vs offshoring
• Complementors and intergrator businesses and not employees
• Entrepreneurs  who are opportunity savvy enough  to turn chaos and change and emerging technologies (nanotech, biotech, smart technologies) into new opportunity scenarios. ( more wealth and US millionaires emerged out of the quarter century long, 19th century depression, then any other time in history, according to Malcom Gladwell, in Outliers)
• energy substitutes for oil, gas and coal if they hit price parity with fossil fuels or electricity (4th generation biofuels)
• commercially viable  cost saving technology 
• Dollar stores, shoe repairs, DIY beer making and wine making, second hand stores & eBay, swap sites, barter 

Think of any more? Please add it to the comments section below

Walter Derzko