Processed food may also become a steadily declining but still lucrative business offering guilty pleasures to those who cannot resist.
They are taking direct aim at former close allies and still lucrative clients, the $2.9tn hedge fund industry.
The Midwest and the boomtowns of Oklahoma and Texas are two areas where picking is still lucrative, he says.
"I don't blame you for your impatience," Vice-President Biden said at the boycotted (but still lucrative) fund-raiser, adding, "I hope you don't doubt the President's commitment".
After that, singer-songwriters were everywhere, although the man himself has never repeated the trick, settling down for two more albums of still lucrative MOR.
And there are still lucrative currency bets to be made, Mr. O'Neill and many other financial professionals say, even though the direction of the American currency isn't as obvious today.
A third are involved in more than one criminal enterprise, with half of those linked to drug-trafficking.And though traditional trafficking in drugs, guns and people is still lucrative, gangs are increasingly moving into lower-risk, higher-reward areas not just wildlife, but fraud and illegal waste-disposal.
Other pieces, such as the sloppy, bright jumpers with slashes of other colours and the tunic sprinkled with enamel fragments painted with Pucci patterns, showed how Williamson can give the label an update but retain its original and still lucrative appeal.
Surely that strategy is a more secure way to build a marketing buzz online without cannibalizing still lucrative on-air advertising sales.
Armstrong, meanwhile, has plenty of free cash to toss her way thanks to his dying, but still lucrative, ISP business– which currently throws off a stunning $215 million a quarter.
It's a still lucrative portion of the wearable industry, into which its one-time fierce competitor Jawbone is said to be shifting after a couple of years of radio silence.
