Quiz: Name One Recession-Proof Business
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- October
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And the answer is: Anything having to do with sex.
While businesses are cutting back and laying off people, the strip club known as Sue’s Rendevous is looking to expand its Mount Vernon den of sexual titilation. They’ve applied for a variance, asking the city’s permission to add a second floor.
In good times and bad times, sex sells. It’s a growth industry that reaps billions and billions of dollars in Internet porn, triple-X movies, videos and strip clubs. It’s so huge that it actually helps shore up the mainstream economy. Porn adds handsome profits to swanky hotel chains, telecommunication firms and even at one time—now get this—General Motors.
That’s right. GM, the teetering car company that makes cars nobody wants to buy, actually had a lucrative piece of the porn action when it owned the national satellite distribution service DirecTV, which featured raunchy programming for households from here to Timbuktu. GM sold its DirecTV interests to Rupert Murdoch, who if nothing else, knows how to make a buck.
No wonder GM is looking for a federal bailout.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
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