While it remains unclear whether video games are a recession-resistant business, sales of the Nintendo Wii and other game systems have remained strong in recent months.
By 2007, after a now-defunct lender called United Commercial Bank gave the partners a $19 million mortgage for construction, Mr. Della Valle and Ms. McConvey decided to form Alloy Development (complete with duly bend-resistant business cards).
And, says Carlson, "the stock will hold up during down markets given the defensive qualities and recession-resistant business".
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To avoid buying into companies that are cheap with good reason, Samra sticks to enterprises with robust cash flows, strong balance sheets, inflation-resistant businesses and whose managers have long records of creating value.
Particularly now, though, when the tentacles of fashion reach out globally, coiling around fat new markets like China or India or Russia, places marooned from global markets for decades, twining into traditionally style-resistant spheres like business and art, you can begin to make out how culture is shaped by a system of which dressmakers are just a small part.
Until recently executives were boasting that the film business was resistant, perhaps even immune, to recession.
But the business was resistant to change.
On Wednesday, the central bank's monthly roundup of the nation's economy, known as the beige book, said that the ability of businesses to pass through cost increases varied throughout the 12 districts surveyed, with generally less resistance in manufacturing, while weak demand made retail and construction businesses more resistant.
Mr. Silverman insisted that Cendant is "recession resistant," largely because its franchise business is immune to such cycles and because of the variety of businesses Cendant operates in.
