you can look to hanghai interests. i say buy that tomorrow. >> i'm melissa lee. thank you so much for watching. see you tomorrow on "squawk bac here at 5:00 followed by "money in motion" here on cnn. "mad money" with jim cramer begins right now. i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing. i always like to say, there's a bull market somewhere, and i promise -- "mad money," you can't afford to miss it! hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. a lot of people want to make friends, i'm trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to coach you and tell you how this works. so call me at 1-800-cnbc. we are running the gauntless on this market. we are asking a trent amount from stocks, often too much, as obstacle after obstacle is

thrown in front of approachable rallies. well, that we would normally perceive to be realistic and commonplace, you'd normally get stocks to go higher, but not this time because of the gauntless. . the average warred ahead and pulled back to limp into the close. dow going on to close up just 26 points. s&p gaining merely 0.3%. nasdaq advancing only 0.15%. no company's immune from this gauntlet, including companies regarded as the best in show. sherwin-willia sherwin-williams, even apple and amazon who reported tonight after the bell, and i'll have more on later. let's go on how a stock can get through the gauntlet to the promised land, and what can cause it to get trapped and ultimately hammered into oblivion if it doesn't. the first leg of the gauntlet is, is the company beholden to europe to make its numbers? you've got to ask that before every stock -- every stock you

own, ask that question. pretty simply, almost every industrial has got exposure to europe, and that goes double for the technology stocks. this, by the way, and not the fiscal cliff, not the fiscal cliff, is behind the vast majority of the hideous shortfalls we've seen in company after company, especially those in the personal computer and dumb phone food chain. but it's also snared the usual winning suspects. google got hit by avnet. they've been pretty reliable. it's not just tech. vf corps has been sliding relentlessly because they made a couple of negative references about europe. that's all it took. i see no negative on the rises. don't expect these stock fortunes to change. step two of the gauntlet, does it have exposure to the election and the fiscal cliff? you want to see how vicious this part of the gauntlet is? do you know the most legitimate big cap upside surprise this week came from boeing? boeing. which jumped a buck and a half, all the way up to 74 and change,

at the open yesterday, after reporting a pristine number. and it's been down ever since. because people perceive that it's defense business will be crushed by a congress that can't avoid the fiscal cliff, even as this commercial air space business is clearly on fire and no one doubts that. plus, romney has been making a ton of noise s about how to fix the deficit while still allowing more military spending. no one cared about boeing's upside surprise. the stock can't seem but stop going down. until the election and the fiscal cliff resolve themselves, we could tread water on these issues too. and then this one is the most fascinating, because it's in flux right now. the china test! here the data depends on the day. it's day to day with china. you've got a knife where the data is strong, out of china, it's good. you get weak, it's bad. got strong, cummins goes higher. same with a stock like timkin. remember them? the ohio-based industrial we visited last week which reported a shortfall, but a lot of that shortfall came from steel that's

made in china! you get china to turn around, this part of the gauntlet can be breached. but every piece of chinese data is potential to call the whole enterprise into question. call it too, let's say, unresolved for now. however, i am leaning personally, heavily toward the idea that china has put in a bottom and 2013 will be better. that's why my charitable trust, which you can follow along at actionalertsplus.com, is heavily weighted towards industrials that do business with china, and yes, has a position in the chinese market itself. once you make it through these first parts of the gauntlet, you've got to get through perhaps the most miserable portion of all, and also least understandable, which is why we're going to spend a few seconds explaining it. it's the expectations leg of the gauntlet i've been talking about all week. let me demonstrate by using the curious case of tractor supply. the rural locator, something that mom and pop feed and grain stores currently offer, tractor supply takes it to those guys. because it's got the critical mass and scale to be able to buy

the goods cheaper than the mom and pop feed and grain outlets, and it can therefore sell the goods less too. these mom and pop outlets can buy from the tractor supply. last night the company beat estimates and raised its forecast. formerly the holy grail of earnings. isn't that what he like? tractor supply dropped $2.28 or 2.4% today. it's crying. it simply didn't beat enough, it simply didn't raise enough given that the stock was already up 33% going into the quarter. tractor supply had been flat or down, that combination would have sent its stock up huge. just go ask the people at procter & gamble, which led the dow today on a beat and raise that was only a fraction of the upside surprise of what tractor supply delivered. but proctor was up a lot less going into the quarter. people expected very little. so it was much easier for them to clear the expectations hurdle and slip right through the gauntlet. you can put many stocks through this exact same prison, under armour. it beat and raised in tremendous fashion, but it fell $3.69

today, as if it had failed to do either. that's what happens when you have a stock that's rallied 47% coming into the year. yes, 47%, under armour has been up. i don't know if it would have mattered what they said. and speaking of it doesn't matter what they said, what about sherwin-williams? it gave you a terrific beat and a fabulous raise, but it was neither terrific or fabulous enough, not to keep the buyers in, because the stock had rallied 60% since the year began. i think that sherwin-williams can rally back to where it was, but it might find itself trapped in different portion of the gauntlet, the one that says if romney wins, he will fire bernanke, and if bernanke is fired, you'll see a raise in mortgages, which will crush the housing boom which has powered sherwin-williams in the first place. what about regeneron, the biotech company that has been a longtime cramer fave. it needs to be shot into the eye once a month, it's real

expensive. but the alternative is a shot that has to be shot into the eye every week. 12 shots or 52 less expensive shots? the competitive drug comes into a big, expensive vial. but this year the fda has said that process could conceivably cause meningitis, no outbreaks, but it could. what could be worse than getting a shot in your eye once a week? what about the chance that the shot could give you a lethal case of meningitis. so last night regeneron reported $1.85 in earnings yesterday. the street was looking for $1.15. hear that? $1.85, we thought $1.15. we keep hearing that market prospectors are disappointed with the performance of revenues. not with regeneron. regeneron's revenues came in with gold medal. but regeneron was down $7.46. why? simple. you can't get through the gauntlet unscathed if your stock is up 180% for the year, while going into it.

the expectations were so great that no amount of beating and raising would have been enough there. everything has to be put through the gauntlet, every stock, including apple. apple reported disappointing numbers tonight. we didn't get the right ipad number. iphones were good, weren't blowout. and the stock's down 10% from its high going in, so you would expect that it would bounce, right? but it's up 50% for the year, it so needed to do better to stay lofty. so the gauntlet's taking the -- let's just say, upside out of apple. oh, amazon's the toughest of all. it's made a habit of reporting lower than expected numbers. tonight's no different. which should clock it, given that it's up 28% for the year. but when the stock quickly dropped 15 points, buyers rushed in, because many don't feel amazon is an investment story, which makes the gauntlet run less hazardous. as for many, amazon is a sales, not an earnings story, and sales were basically in line. they don't look at that bottom line. suffice it to say, if the stock were flat for the year, amazon

would be up huge tonight. instead, it's not that much, because it's not that much of a needle mover and the buyers seem to love it no matter what. here's the bottom line. i can't recall when the gauntlet to go higher was this big. for many stocks, we get lower prices and then remember, almost no company gets through the ridiculous gauntlet of the third quarter of 2012 unscathed. dorian in texas? dorian? >> caller: boo-yah, jim, how's it going? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: i'm doing just fine. say, i was laooking into this recent wave of housing reports that have recently come out of homes, by hlv, and it's been performing is very well. i've been trying to pick a new buy price and i wanted to get your outlook on the stock. i was and wondering how you felt this looming fiscal cliff could affect the housing market overall? >> it's definitely going to affect the housing market. if you think romney's going to

win, you don't want to own the housing stocks. why? because bernanke has been the biggest supporter of housing stocks. if you want a better play, i would go with polty or lennar. let's go to john in massachusetts, please? john? >> caller: hey, ba boo-yah, jim. how you doing from halifax, massachusetts. my question is about best buy. my son has a bunch of stock, he worked for the company. is there a buyout? where's it going? >> there's no buyout. i believe the balance sheet is bad. companies that have bad balance sheets tend not to get buyouts. i think your son should be scaling out of the stock. i think that's important. i mean it. i think he should be selling the stock. let's go to ron in california. >> caller: jim, boo-yah from beautiful san clemente, california. my wife, adele, and i love you. we love the show. i want to say thank you so much for the tips on ross stores and

harley davidson. i made money on both of them. >> i like that! >> caller: and i own a packaging company too. anyways, professor, i want to know your views on wynn resorts, las vegas sands, and baidu.com. >> baidu, i'm not that interested in. i like the whole chinese index. las vegas sands is good. i think wynn is excellent. the dividend is excellent. steve wynn had maybe one of the best conferences after facebook. it was really magnificent, and he talked about tax policies and dividends, made me really want to own the stock. i think you're fine there. the gauntlet, it is brutal. the gauntlet is unforgiving. but it's unavoidable for stocks, until europe gets better, china gets more clearer, the election is behind us, and the fiscal cliff is at last history. "mad money" will be right back. coming up next, box cutter? international paper got burned today after disappointing the street.

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companies have done everything they can to take control of their own destiny. but what happens when a company with fabulous execution, nevertheless, manages to miss those posted numbers? how about the case of international paper, ip, largest maker of containerboard in north america. many are hostage to the fortunes of the broader economy. but international paper, under the leadership of its terrific ceo has been transforming itself for years, selling off its land holdings, shifting from paper towards packaging products, and then buying temple inland earlier this year in a really fantastic deal that's allowing them to cut costs left and right while taking out a ton of capacity. and international paper pays you this juicy yield. they raised the dividend earlier this month. the company delivered what a lot of people thought was a two-cent

earnings miss, and revenues came in a tad light, rising just 5.9% for the year. in response, the stock got dinged. of course, more importantly, it had a huge run going into the quarter. this is another case where great expectations meant the stock probably had to give up some points. now that it's pulled back, though, is it worth buying? let's check in john faraci. he has a better sense of the quarter and what comes back. mr. faraci, welcome back to "mad money." good to see you, sir. thank you so much. please have a seat. we think this is the case. i went over this with stephanieling, my research director. we said this was the case of a stock that had gone up and up and up. it may not have matter what you reported, because there really wasn't anything that was a surprise. you had said there could be some down time, and that's what happened here. >> sure. >> so are we in a position to say the whole merger that we love so much is still have ever on track? >> absolutely. we had a $300 million merger target in two years and we got

to that target in less than nine months. so we're going to employee right beyond the $300 million. and it's more faster. the temple inland integration is going very well. and i think this time next year, we'll be optimizing the business, not integrating pit. >> okay, if that's the case, you're probably, of the large-cap ceos i deal, you're the most pro-dividend of anyone. you've been saying that over and over again. so the board will consider over time taking the dividend even higher. if all those -- if the temple inland stuff comes through. >> in today's global economy, it certainly is challenging, the fact that the board agreed to raise the dividend, in the fourth quarter, i think is a reflection of their confidence in our ability to generate strong, free cash flows, even in this kind of economic environment. and we're pretty positive about next year. >> steel, they haven't been able to put through any price increases. aluminum, they've had to cut price. zinc, cut price. iron work, tremendous price cut. coal, you guys put through a $50 price increase. how is that possible? >> we haven't had a price increase in nearly 2 1/2 years.

and at the end of the someday, these are all about supply and demand. and when we looked at the supply and demand from our perspective, we saw that as a needed opportunity. because prices hasn't moved. they'd been basically flat for over two years. >> okay. now, international paper, when my father did work for it, was domestic paper, frankly. they could have called it national paper. you are truly international paper. on october 10th, you told closing bell, i think china's growing far less than 7%. they slowed down and it feels more like 2% or 3%. i know that's not that long ago, but we're starting to hear people saying, they recognize that, and there's beginning to see some green shoots in china. >> well, i was in china a month ago. >> okay. >> and our business over there is about half shipping to companies that export the products. the products leave china, and the other half, products that stay in china. and the half that goes out of china, has really gotten hammered. it's down 15 to 20%. there's still growth in the domestic market, but when you put the two together, it's starting to like it's 2 to 3%

gdp growth. but i don't think that's structural, that's cyclical. china's going through an adjustment, they have a new government that's coming into place. they'll get their focus on the economy, with and when the chinese do that, they typically do a good job of executing. >> well, you've also had tremendous growth in other bric countries. brazil has been a big focus for you. it's working, right? >> we've been in brazil for 50 years. we got in the paper business first, and as you know, yesterday, we announced the acquisition, 75% acquisition of a corrugated box company in brazil, which really puts us into the number two or number three position in a growing market. between mexico and brazil, that's almost 60% latin american corrugated business. we've got a strong position in mexico and now we've got the footprint in brazil. >> now, when my dad was selling corrugated paper for international paper, the one thing that we knew was that only wholesalers knew what corrugated paper was. it used to be one of those things where big businesses knew. we all get packages now at home. we come home every night and there's a package from amazon that's in corrugated. everybody ships them because of

the internet. how do you think that the holiday season is going to be for international paper, because of all this internet ordering? >> we were talking about that this morning, with, you know, one of the interviews, and when you slice apart our corrugated packaging business, it goes into so many end-use markets. and online retailing la ining l, at this point, it's going to be stronger than last year. because we see some strength in that segment of our corrugated box business as we go into the holidays. >> i know federal express and united parcel talking about being good parcel season. again, the transition toward -- from brick and mortar to web has really been a great thing for international paper. >> it does help us in the packaging business, for sure. >> when will you be able to make another acquisition? because the last one's been so fabulous. >> well, this international paper isn't all about m&a. >> that's a good point. >> it's about putting together a set of businesses. we really refocussed and repositioned international paper. so it's all about execution and delivering on all the

initiatives that we had have go beyond acquisitions. a major project starting up in russia, that serves the growing russia market and the growing china market. we've got the completion of the temple integration benefits, we've got a new paper machine starting up in china, a business in india that we just bought, that's starting to get integrated and get some traction. paper volume is growing at almost double digit rates. i think we've got enough on our plate, and we'll go out and generate a lot of cash and use it to create shareholder value. >> and roll costs are pretty good. >> yeah. >> you've got that great combination for expansion and top line being good. most companies have gross margin contraction and top line being weak. >> i think we've got a lot of opportunity for margin expansion next year, and we're well positioned, we see more of the same. we don't see a snap back in the u.s. economy or the global economies. but where we're positioned, we're in good shape to generate potentially more cash flow next year than we did this year and

improve our ebitda. >> thank you, john faraci. this is how the investment process is supposed to work, guys. the company does really good things, keeps its cost down, blows out more sales, makes more fun for you, and returns some of the dividend. stay with cramer. coming up, patently false. concerns over sanofi's patent cliff seem to be passing as the drug giant reported better than expected earnings today. but can it continue to fend off competition, or could its condition take a turn for the worse? cramer is talking with its ceo. and later, the bank job. they don't get much bigger or controversial than bank of america. and the plot just thickened after the feds hit 'em with a billion-dollar lawsuit. is it time to make a withdrawal? don't miss cramer's take. all coming up on "mad money."

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what about updated equipment? they can help, but recent research shows... ... nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. with so many people fretting about the impending fiscal cliff at the beginning of next year, and the earnings cliff that numerous companies seem to be falling off right now, it's worth remembering that when you're approaching a gaping crevasse that could devastate your business, you don't have to take the plunge. we want to own companies that can bring these grand canyon-sized gaps, and that's why tonight i want to talk to you about another cliff entirely, the patent cliff. remember that one, that's where virtually every single big pharma company was supposed to

be crushed as they lost patent protection on some of the most popular drugs? we're right in the middle of the patent cliff. but some drug companies saw this problem coming years ago and they took action. and they bridged the crevasse, so that, well, now they're doing much better than ever. companies like sanofi, sny, the french pharmaceutical outlet with a bountiful yield of 3.8%, that i've been behind forever. sanofi realized the patent cliff would be a problem years ago, from 2008 through this year, the company was expected to lose patent protection on drugs that represented a quarter of its sales, close to half of its profits. but they didn't just sit there and take it. they moved aggressively into vaccines, animal health, and diabetes, all growth areas, unfortunately diabetes being the greatest growth area in the world. we talk about orphan drug plays all the time. genzyme is the key of o orphan drugs. they treat rare diseases. now all these moves are paying off. they reported a terrific quarter

this morning and the stock rallied nicely today. in fact, sanofi is giving you a 13% return with reinvested dividends since we spoke with its ceo in september of last year and told you this is the one to buy. and i think they're going to be more ahead. let's talk to chris advisove ve. you came out and laid out a strategy of going into emerging markets, animal health, diabetes, genzyme, and they all worked. >> i really wanted to get off of this patent treadmill. and to do that, we had to find businesses that had some barrier to entry that wasn't related to it. so whether it's capital investment, know-how, our brands are going to give us much more sustainable revenue for the long-term. and i think that's where the multiple expansions come from. >> so emerging markets, it's not just bric anymore. with you, i read about the 100 million people in vietnam. nigeria you're into, colombia. this sounds like the new level

of emergining markets, not the d ones. >> if you look at a whole series, if you take the continent of africa, for example, china is actually investing significantly in africa. but also in education and health care. if you're in southeast asia, you know, the costs are rising in china, and so some of that economic growth in china is benefitting the region. colombia is a phenomenally growing market in latin america, which has really been driven by brazil. we like to be there, because our competitors aren't there. and so when we do acquisitions, i prefer to be where the others aren't, because i'm not in an auction mode, and we feel we can drive more value in those places. >> animal health is chronically underrated. people don't realize how much money is spent. you -- other companies have been divesting animal health divisions. you're becoming the foremost animal health division in the world. >> and there's two pieces to animal health. there's a piece which is pets. and that acts more like a consumer business. >> right. >> front line is our single business -- >> everybody knows frontline.

>> absolutely. and that is like a consumer business. >> right. >> nice, long assets. but the other part is the production animals. 7 billion people on the planet and they need to be held, and animal products improve productivity. so as middle income groups grow, they want to eat more protein, need more animals, and you need animals that are better cared for. so what we have also found is that in economic downturns, this is not where households make trade-offs, actually. they will continue to support fido. >> we saw that with petsmart. and we go to costco to get our stuff. got great prices for your stuff there. now, we have been behind orphan drugs as a theme for this show, because the fda has become too difficult to navigate, costs too much, and you bet the ranch and sometimes it didn't work. you, too, are obviously behind the orphan drug move. >> yeah, i think there's a couple of reasons. i mean, first, you have very clear unmet need. but very often, you understand the genetic target much better than in most diseases.

and this is really where translational research will come in. so you are going to make a big difference to people's lives, and you're going to have a higher likelihood in the development of a product, because of what you understand about the disease. there are 7,000 rare diseases today. we only know how to treat 300 of them. so there's still a huge amount of work to be done, a huge opportunity here. >> earlier this week, we had isis pharmaceutical. and you're partnered with them. and some people are worried about their safety issues. the ceo was on and said, listen, the safety issues are overblown. i know that's very granular for you, but do you have a view on how isis is doing with you? >> isis is a very good partner with us. and any safety issue depends on what you're treating. if you're treating a common cold, you're not going to tolerate safety issues. the disease this is meant to be treated, people will die at age

40 if they're not treated. the only treatment today is, we'll hook you up to a machine and suck the cholesterol out of you. but it does need to be properly monitored. >> so election coming up in the united states. obviously, you're a french company, but you're a worldwide company. would either candidate -- judging from the debates, would either candidate be better for your business? >> well, you know, i think we've been through -- we went through the bush administration, the obama administration. you know, i think there's going to have to be some examination of health care costs, no question about it, no matter who gets elected, there is a belief this is one of the major driver of government deficits going forward, so we'll have to work with either administration, but an important issue on both sides of the atlantic. >> the last question i want to ask you, if there is one area that's costing governments worldwide the most, it is diabetes. that has become a major focus for you. where are we? dreaded disease, epidemic proportions.

what have you got? >> 250 million people have diabetes on the plan. and the most important thing, though, is that we can prevent this disease. and we will spend $100,000 to treat you. we will not necessarily spend $1 to keep you well. there has to be a shift in health care priorities to more prevention and better management of these chronic diseases. and i actually am working the ceo of nestle on a global health charter. >> oh, great. >> to actually try to mobilize multiple stakeholders around this. >> i wish you great success with that. and your shareholders have had fabulous success, just as you outlined it on the show. best performing drug stock we're following. >> you believed in us first. >> i sure did. i thought you were terrific. and you're going to pay us to wait with a great dividend. and no one believed, and they were wrong. they were wrong and you were right. >> i want to thank chris

viehbatvie viehbacher, ceo of sanofi. look at that yield. it is clearly not done going higher. stay with cramer. coming up, are you ready to get charged up? cramer cranks up the voltage and goes electric on an all-new hyperactive "lightning round." later, chip check. lsi semiconductor beat the street last night, sending the stock skyward, but despite the move, it's still lagging the averages this year. will it continue to play catch-up? cramer sits down with its ceo. all coming up on "mad money." ♪

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>> what's up? this is just a stock that's completely on hold, waiting for better news. don't buy. let it come under 19. i want to go to phil in louisiana. phil? >> caller: yes, jim? >> yo-yo? >> caller: i have a stock for income and diversity, and i want to know whether to buy more, sell, or hold bpt. >> no, no, we're not in these now. i'll tell you why we're not in these, because they keep cutting the distributions. i do not want you there. i would rather you have something consistent. look, the one that we've been recommending and i think is so good is lnco, linco limited liability. let's go to david in florida. david? >> caller: hey, jimmy! >> yo yo? >> caller: how you doing, young fella? >> thank you. >> caller: i was wanting to know about a little stock called windstream, symbol win. >> that's a tough one, win, because it's got a good yield, but i thought when the company came on, it was a lukewarm story. i think if you want yield in

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earnings season is about expectations. we've witnessed time and again, when a company has great expectations going into earnings and only reports a so-so quarter, even a lousy one, the stock gets crushed. sometimes it's even a good one. that's been the dominant theme this week. but there's another side, because when the expectations are lousy going into the quarter, even when a company report results that look on the surface that are not so hot, the stock can rocket higher. that's what happened today with lsi corporation. it's a semiconductor company that makes chips for storage and networking technologies. i remember when it was lisi, i used to trade it all the time in my dorm room. this is a good one. ls si a big data play. that's been one of my favorite themes in tech. but this has been a terrible period to own tech stocks. last night lsi reported at first glance what looked to be like a not very good quarter, and first glance being the operative term. company delivered in-line earnings, missed on revenues, issued down line guidance. but in fact lsi roared higher, rallying 7.6%, one of the biggest gainers in the market. why? expectation. in the last six weeks going into

the quarter, lsi was down nearly 20%. that kind of action suggests that some people thought the quarter would be horrific. but when their low expectations were exceeded, the stock went higher. and a transition happening that's really important. does lsi mark a turn in tech or are their expectations too negative? let's talk to abby toll walker, the president and ceo lsi corps to find out more about the quarter and what's ahead. welcome back to "mad money." have a seat. >> good to be back. >> this was a really important quarter, i felt for you, and i'm referring to your investor relations conference call. you're going from what a lot of people don't like so what a lot of people do like, which is cloud and infrastructure. how far along are you and do you think the stock was up because you're further along than people thi think? >> a lot of our investors said, your guidance is a lot better. >> very important. >> relative to our transformation and increasing our position in cloud and data center, we're at the early stages here. probably 20, 25% of our businesses is associated with

pc-centric, client-centric, but the rest of it is cloud, infrastructure driven by all these storage requirements, as well as all this growth in traffic, mobile traffic as well. >> okay, now, what you want to do is you claim in the presentation, something that we need our viewers to understand, because they go crazy with the $6 stock. i want them to understand what they're dealing with. you want to own the base station. what is the base station, where does it appear in the food chain? >> base station, think of it as access. when you get on your mobile handset and you make a call, it has to access something to go on to the network. that's the base station. so you want to own that in terms of the critical silicon there, because as we continue to drive a tremendous amount of growth, mobile network is going to continue to grow and we want to benefit from that. >> the market's in a schism here. there's personal computers and i think we all know, you're a company that's different. that's kind of a no-growth business. this mobile business. some people are getting worried. they're thinking that perhaps the teleco companies aren't spending enough. perhaps the enterprise is not

spending enough. it looks like from your point of view, that even if they were cutting back, there's still a lot of spending going on. >> there is spending going on. we're benefiting from some high-growth markets, flash in particular. and flash is helping certainly data centers and large web companies respond to the tremendous growth that they're dealing with. and lower overall total cost of ownership. but, you know, jim, tech, tech is constrained today. tech is tied so tightly to gdp's growth rates around the world, it's discretionary, people hold back, right? so there is a constrained environment, once gdp growth rates kind of improve, economic outlook improves, i think tech is in for a pretty strong cycle. there's a lot of great technology out there. >> i don't want to be too optimistic, but there is also, at the same time, still, even with the world selling a data deluge, that your company is uniquely prepared for. >> that's right. we're generating a tremendous amount of data, whether it's a bad economic environment or a good one. and that data has to flow through wireless infrastructure, flow through networks, and

ultimately there's tremendous growth in big data centers, web, cloud-oriented services, as well, which we service through our storage and networking products. >> in your reports, you make it very clear that you've got proprietary technology that's better than others. a lot of people might say, well, wait a second, why can't an intel come in and smash them, texas instruments? what is it about lsi that makes it so that you own your space? >> well, we've been in this industry relative to storage and networking for 20, 30 years. we've got very core ip that help us accelerate, you know, storage or data and data movement, as well as network traffic, very uniquely with some unique intelligence that we have. >> now, you have spent enough money to buy back 100 million of your shares. and yet you still have no debt and you still have cash. is there progress with this buyback? can you say, it's been a win, versus, say giving a dividend? because when i look at the stock, the stock's not moved, but the buyback's been immense? >> yeah, there is a benefit. i mean, the buyback has been

creative. >> it has been creative. >> and we do generate a lot of cash. we have excess cash. and right now, using that cash for stock repurchase is better than introducing a dividend. dividend for us is probably a question of when and not if. right now, the stock, we think, is undervalued and we've got cash and we've got an authorization of $500 million. and we'll certainly be active as we have in the past. >> one last question. if we see you next year at this time, and i sure hope we do, will we be not having to worry or even talking about personal computers? >> from an lsi standpoint, we've got so many other growth drivers. a lot of the growth drivers are in networking and data center as well as flash, a market that's growing 40, 50% per year and we're outgrowing that market. >> then i think you've answered that question the way i like it. that is the president and ceo of lsi corps. ones with great buyback and great prospects, they're up to the task. i would stay with lsi if you bought it watching and i would think about initiating position

if you're thinking that tech has finally bottomed. thank you. >> thank you. coming up, the bank job. they don't get much bigger or controversial than bank of america, and the plot just thickened after the feds hit them with a $1 billion lawsuit. is it time to make a withdrawal? don't miss cramer's take. mike rowe here at a ford tell me fiona, who's having a big tire event? your ford dealer. who has 11 major brands to choose from? your ford dealer. who's offering a rebate? your ford dealer. who has the low price tire guarantee... affording peace of mind to anyone who might be in the market for a new set of tires?

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our allies just glazed over another lawsuit against bank of

america. this time from the justice department, because of alleged mortgage fraud against fannie mae and freddie mac. why do we just yawn and move on these days? first of all, no one will be pursued. the buck did not stop in the institution, it stopped at the people running the institution at the time. but the only bills these guys will have to pay are the ones on their boat drink tab. second, the shareholders of bank of america are the runs who will ultimately have to pay the legal bill and the settlement sum. they're going to recruit some money for the stooge who is bought these crumby money from bank of america, from the stooges who are stupid enough to be a shareholder. no big institution posts the disastrous shut downer of arthur anderson ever, since enron, ever gets shut down, as that costs too many jobs. and bank of america is on the too big to fail list anyway. third, the housing market is coming back and the only thing stopping it from booming is the fact that the banks are so far behind on their legal paperwork and don't want to add new personnel until all these legal bills are sorted. they're scared and this lawsuit makes them more scared and less

likely to lend money. and the decision to sue bank of america now seems almost like desperation, especially since fan frye and freddie were hardly incident in the drama. this suit won't change anybody's behavior. that changed years ago. finally, we never created a federal criminal mortgage task force to target those who got us into this mess, even when you go back and look at the headlines, you can see those. we always heard these cases are too hard to make in court, so why do we ever bottom to sue the companies when the people who will actually pay the damages are the hapless shareholders who did nothing wrong whatsoever. i say this as a guy who's very pro-prosecution in real life. i thought a group of people who so went against the law that fraud cases could have been brought and the wins would have been in the bag. but the only really major case i saw about mortgage fraud was a loss for the government. a complicated case involving valuing securities owned by a

fund and the managers who valued them. that took the steam out of the justice department in washington. rather than assessing what went wrong in brooklyn, decided to focus on other less important issues, or cases that wouldn't be as as difficult to bring or to win. so bank of america for a huge amount that will go who knows where and lots of money made by the defense lawyers and will cost bank of america about half a penny a share and the shareholders will pay the bill. that's about it. the failure of the government at all levels to regulate and prosecute bankers now rivals the failure of the government and the banks to do their jobs and trying to clean up the mess. this lawsuit is still one more step backwards. too little, too late, with not an ounce of real justice coming from the justice department, what a missed opportunity. just another barn door closing on the shareholders' faces after the supposed bad guys got away. stick with cramer. i don't spend money

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