we got conoco. we got schlumberger. we got eog resources, national oilwell varco, and then yes, the riskiest of all, magnum hunter! the most speculative and riskiest. know yourself. know your tolerance for pain. are you the marathon man, able to endure drilling without anesthetic? it seems safe? magnum is for you. afraid of your own shadow? need to be put under for a cavity? go conoco. as for the rest, something in between may be just right for you and your portfolio. scott, next to the omaha of the oracle of omaha, scott from nebraska, scott? >> caller: what's happening, cramer? first of all, you got to get with the old school. the boo-yah is not working. now it's boom. >> i didn't know that. thank you for filling me in. we're going to change everything radically tomorrow morning. what's going on? >> caller: hey, man, i seen it early this morning. transcanada pipeline, they're making another bid to put that pipeline out there. i want to get your opinion on that. do i buy, sell? what do i do here? >> good luck. here is

>> caller: i'm looking for what to do with conoco phillips -- >> the answer is you buy buy buy.mer on twitter, somebody said what stock would you buy right now? i said my charitable trust thinks conoco phillips is about to explode here if oil keeps going higher. c.o.p. that is for me. and ladies and gentlemen, that is the conclusion of the "lightning round"! >>> after years of this kind of churning action of this crazy intraday volatility i think people, they got sick to their stomachs. kind of like a real bad roller coaster that makes you feel very uneasy. and not just the rides i threw up on like scream at magic mountain or apollo's chariot at busch gardens or, yeah, even the carousels at sesame place. you wonder why i wouldn't go on that new "harry potter" ride at universal, right? that darn thing's the vix of coasters. jamison in texas. jamison. >> caller: ba-ba-ba-boo-yah, jim. >> johnnie walker black boo-yah to you, my friend. >> paul in arizona. paul. >> caller: greetings from the middle of nowhere, arizona. >> caller: boo-yah from hillsborough, missouri. >> hillsborough?

eaton, and conoco, high-yielding oil company.mpany, we have industrial and a gold stock. uh-oh, two ag stocks. that's not what we want. so we'll keep here, and we'll throw out potash and buy abbott, why? because the company is splitting in two and breaking up is easy to do. audrey in washington. audrey? >> caller: hi. boo-yah, mr. cramer. >> boo-yah, audrey. >> caller: i just want to say you are absolutely the best. you are so generous with all of your knowledge of all of us little guys, and i read two of your books, and i listen to you every day and i'm a retired widow, and i have my what i call my stock play money account and you've made me able to double my account. >> there you go. i say ♪ hallelujah? >> let's go to work. >> caller: i have aapl, apple, dis, disney, gld, gold, mcd, mcdonald's and t for at&t. >> well, first, let me say i think we have a portfolio here that is made up definitely with horse sense. we have gold, we know we want that. i put that in every portfolio. and mcdonald's, the stock is still here, why? beca

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the keystone pipeline ends right outside my district, and my refinery, the conoco phillips refinery did a $2 billion expansion during the lowest neck times. why? so they could ship it to down south so they can put it on ships? no. to refine it. there's a better return on investment for refining a product and selling a product than moving the bulk commodity product as is. let's just take my friend's debate for what it is. so what if the crude oil goes on the market. so what. don't we understand supply and demand and commodity pruktds. the more splif of a come did it mark, the lower pry if the man staying the same. it's very simple. my friends happen had why would we ship crude oil down to the gulf coast to then ship it to china? where is harper today? harper is in china. why? he's trying to cut the deal to move the pipeline west versus south. wouldn't that be a better plan for the chinese. we know they're great in environmental record of the chinese, and we know the great record of moving crude oil across the sees. i say a pipeline is the most secure, the safest environmentally sound and

kraft, conoco phillips and mcgraw hill are among them. we spoke with mcgraw hill c.e.o. terry mcgraw about the growth potential for his education and financial businesses. >> what we're seeing is as banks are limited in terms of some of their funding for private sector investment, and getting capital to the private sector. what's taking over in the bond market. right now in terms of lending in the united states, 50% of the capital raised is coming from bankss and about 50% is coming from the bond market. >> right now in europe, 80% of the capital raised is coming out of banks. 20% out of bond markets. that will shift dramatically. and as that 20% becomes 30 and 40%, dpaen, we will benefit from that. >> tom: what about the dodd trafrng reform act that which ban trading with their own money. could that impact business in the u.s. >> not really. i think what we have to see is some amendment to that, and actually, tom, this is a great point. what we're seeing literally around the world is individual countries coming up with some regularulation in the financial markets and fo

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another one from conoco phill s phillips. so you'll have a shortage of supply. >> you won't have what you really need to get cars going. you create this kind of shortage, especially coming into the summer months. that's why you get $4 gas. >> let's talk about this. let's set aside the first reason, which is crazy western financial policies, which created distortive incentive to buy oil. we'll set aside the refining issue, which goes to permitting and is a whole other conversation. and i want to stay on the trade deficit and the second issue, which is the incredible vulnerability we have to the activities in the middle east. if we wanted to set a policy agenda for energy independence relative to that particular component, do the resources, does the technology exist knowing that not only doing this would reduce our trade deficit? >> we're importing 8 million barrels a day and using that much in gasoline. we can produce another 4 million barrels a day in oil to cut that had in half by opening up assets. most of the onshore drill

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