With the news coverage getting worse and more alarmist on the chaos about to strike us, it seems credit crunch mania is now hitting home with everyone.....sitting there on the train on way to work, people complaining about rising this, cant afford that etc

So, products and sectors that will boom/continue to push ahead regardless of the downturn? What are your thoughts on who will benefit?

Mine are:

Car Insurance
Home insurance
Utilitie companies
Pre-pay/payg mobiles
Pre-pay cards
Debt management IVA practitioners
Divorce lawyers

Cheers, T

Undertakers

Income protection insurance
Chocolate
Alcohol (drunk at home)
Libraries
Debt collecting agencies
UK agriculture

ME ~ I've got loads of cash to spend when that moment arrives......not yet..........but sometime............to buy a few houses dirt cheap.

The rich.

the banks. (Which is sad considering this mess is mainly their fault.)

the conservatives

day time tv shows. (higher viewing figures)

large employers who can pay new desperate staff appalling wages.

supermarkets (people still gotta eat)

pharmaceuticals (same reason)

cheap entertainment providers (dvd shops, pizza takeaways etc.)

Right wing politicians always benefit from fear. Hitler, Thatcher, Bush . . .

Me too , vendors are terrified , its nice to be able to help out.

Oh and companies who sell home brew kits ,it was on the news tonight.
Things must be bad if you ain't got the price of a pint!

Smug FTBs with jobs - until they lose their jobs, or buy a house themselves, and then use this website to complain when house prices continue to fall.

BTL landlords with cash or low LTVs - they must be looking at the falling prices and enjoying the rising yields; they've seen nothing but falling yields since at least the year 2000. Soon it will be a good time to be picking up distress sales from other BTL landlords, reposessions and people who are downsizing or switching to rent-to-buy.

Developers and housebuilders ditto, provided they can keep their cashflow running and are prepared for the two-year agony called getting planning permission.

The homebrew shop in town is doing roaring trade.

And so they should, i made some last month and its really good,no nasty yeasty tastes and a lovely lively head.

Gets you twisted to.