>> jim cramer. >> jim cramer. >> jim cramer! >> the very unstable jim cramer. >> without question jim cramer is a virtuoso of the stock market. >> there's a guy jim cramer who rolls up his sleeves, who never sits down, just continually walk around, prowl around the studio. >> one of the greatest, most spectacular performers on television. >> he is evidently insane. >> you have to be nuts to understand the market, and i am nuts about the market. >> let me offer you a heartfelt boo-yah. >> you've got to stay focused! >> commerzbank, i think that's going to -- >> commerzbank. >> open all the time! >> that's it! two thumbs up! >> bull! bull! >> it's arrested development. >> triple sell. don't buy! >> don't buy. >> i'm grounded and spent all day listening to my dad yell at "mad money" with jim cramer. >> bottom line! everything's going to be fine. >> stark industries. that's a weapons company that doesn't make weapons! >> jim cramer had this to say about the economy. he's a prophet. listen. >> he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothi

call cramer at 1-800-743-cnbc to find out how to fire away at cramer on the "lightning round." >>> it is time for the "lightning round." hey, what's that all about? you say the name of a stock, i tell you whether to buy, buy, buy or sell, sell, sell. my staff prepares the graphics on the fly. when you hear this sound, the lightning round is over. are you ready, ski-daddy? it's time for the "lightning round." i want to start with will in south carolina. will. >> caller: a big boo-yah, to you, jim, from south carolina. >> charlton, south carolina. i love that. good college there, too. what's up? >> caller: want to know what you think about cmed. >> i'm don't need that. i don't need a cement company. i'm going to be in aggregates so i'm going to go with bulk and materials. i would need a better balance sheet. patty in massachusetts. >> caller: hey, a big, bad boo-yah, jim. >> nice to have you on the show, patty. >> caller: thank you. a quick question. i wanted your opinion on china unicom. chu. >> oh, boy. i did a conference call yesterday, a thing called the chairman's club. i did it wi

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dan. >> caller: hello, jim cramer.thank you for a great five years of your service, and a big boo-yah from swansee, new hampshire. >> good to have you on the show. i always like the new englanders checking in. what's on your mind? >> caller: hey, i've owned smb, schlumberger, for a long time now, and since they've announced the buying out of smith's and geo services, the stock's got a little stagnant. it's getting a little slow. i'm just wondering do i keep it? do i -- >> well, someone downgraded it. people are very concerned that what's happened here, just so you know, they're very, very concerned that oil -- that natural gas is going down so low that they're going to lose a lot of natural gas business. and the guy who runs is, andrew gould, he is a very honest guy, and he too is throwing cold water on the idea that things are good. so when he doesn't like it, i get nervous. but let's think longer term. are we running out of oil, or are we finding more oil all the time? the answer is we need to keep drilling, and that

>> caller: cramer, you are the best.he best of the best. >> thank you. >> caller: i loved your fifth anniversary show. loved it. >> we had a good time. thank you very much. we're still talking about it here. i really appreciate that. kind words. >> caller: must tell you that i never thought i'd be trading stocks at this age. i'm not going to tell you how old i am. but i'm having fun. >> well-g for you. you know, fun can be a component. there are many people who think this shouldn't be fun, that it's about money. my take is unless i make it fun you will turn it over to other people and they will not do as well as you. i've got to keep you interested in your money. how can i help, sir? >> caller: brocade. what are they doing to it? i like it at these prices. >> i don't know. brocade has been left behind, sir. i think they had an opportunity to sell themselves. they didn't take it. this is one of those situations where i and my charitable trust, actionalertsplus.com, have taken aggressive action against brocade by buying th

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stick with cramer!ddddddd >>> welcome back to this how to adapt to try to make money in a changing market edition of "mad money". if there's one thing you can be sure of as an investor, it's that things change, you've got to be flexible. do you know that often the most important things when it comes to picking stocks and figure out which direction the market's headed change constantly. particularly in this new world. you've got to be ready. one of the most important lessons that i think you have to learn from the market's collapse in late 2008, early 2009 followed by the meteoric rise after the bottom in march of 2009 is that the indicators that matter can change in a heartbeat. so you should never stop trying to figure out which ones matter most. what do i mean by indicators? okay. we've got a bunch of them. there's all kinds of technical and fundamental information that we use to inform our worldview about the economy and the market. and you know if you don't have a worldview you're not going to

stay with cramer.atural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, yet a lot of natural gas has impurities like co2 in it. controlled freeze zone is a new technology... being developed by exxonmobil... to remove the co2 from the natural gas... so we can safely store it... where it won't get into the atmosphere. exxonmobil is spending more than 100 million dollars... to build a plant that will demonstrate this process. i'm very optimistic about it... because this technology could be used... to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. ♪ >>> for the better part of a century the united states was the preeminent global economic superpower. as an investor that meant you couldn't go wrong betting that when america sneezed the rest of the world would get pneumonia, if not the bubonic plague. the rest of the world's economies were often more dependent on the federal reserve's decisions than their own central banks'. in short, we were the glorious center of the universe, and you had to invest accordingly. all of that

purdue's chris cramer made a lay-up in the closing seconds of overtime for a 63-61 win over texas a&m. cramer had 17 points for the boilermakers. >>> it was an upset for xavier over pittsburgh as jordan crawford scored 27 points. pitt missed a shot at the end and xavier got the victory 71-68. >>> lewis dale scored 26 points as cornell knocked off wisconsin 87-69. the big red is the first ivy league team to advance to the sweet 16 in more than 20 years. >>> number one seed duke dominated inside against california for a 68-53 blue devil win. duke faces purdue in a south regional semifinal on bring in houston. >>> wes johnson of syracuse scored a career-high 31 points as the orange defeated gonzaga. next syracuse plays putler on thursday in salt lake city. so exciting. when we return, another look at this morning's top stories. and the right of spring. gas prices creep up as we approach summer driving season. g? (announcer) the sinus triple threat. (announcer) not just sinus headache... ahhhh! but pressure... and congestion. introducing sudafed pe® triple action™. for more complete relie

of course, i watch kudlow. >> what about cramer? >> i watch everything on cnbc all of the time. >> there is not much of the evening left, is there? it is a great show by the way. >> thank you, thank you. >> after the bell, intel getting into smartphones or the smartphone chip market. we will discuss whether that could -- how that could shape up for the industry, and give google an edge over apple and rim. ahead at 4:00 p.m., you are watching cnbc, first in business worldwide. natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, yet a lot of natural gas has impurities like co2 in it. controlled freeze zone is a new technology... being developed by exxonmobil... to remove the co2 from the natural gas... so we can safely store it... where it won't get into the atmosphere. exxonmobil is spending more than 100 million dollars... to build a plant that will demonstrate this process. i'm very optimistic about it... because this technology could be used... to reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly. ♪ investors are demanding more for their money. go

. >>> getting ready for cramer to come out and meet lightning. lot of e-mails about lightning already. one, lightning is about 8 to 10 years old. two, he is a boy. this is, you know, still cable, so we're not ghg to show you. but he is. and three, he goes back every once or two weeks. he hasn't gone in a while. he might luck out. we'll be back with cramer. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 if i could change one thing... tdd# 1-800-345-2550 we'd all get a ton of great advice tdd# 1-800-345-2550 just for being a client. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 i mean, shouldn't i be able to talk about my money tdd# 1-800-345-2550 without it costing me a fortune? tdd# 1-800-345-2550 if i had my way, investment firms would be tdd# 1-800-345-2550 falling all over themselves to help me with my investments. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 (announcer) at schwab investors rule. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 are you ready to rule? >>> never had the camera this low. >> no, we haven't. >> jim has a surprise today. come on. now you're scaring me. >> all right. i've got one of these, too. >> what do you mean you've

chris cramer, not known for his offense but gets the job done. purdue up 83-81. the aggies have time for one last shot. b.j.'s pointer is off the mark. they advance with a 63-61 win. cornell may have done you in. the 12-seat shocking wisconsin leading from start to finish and their s.a.t. scores aren't too bad either. they pull a win. they'll play top seeded kentucky next. >>> and that's your early look at sports on "early today." i'm mario solis. >>> well, alice won again as expected, but which new film flopped? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, he's been called one of the greatest pittsburghers in the 20s century. but you probably know him better for his neighborhood and his sweaters. you're watching "early today." morning. we had that snow that fell in kansas city over the weekend, but today will be 49 and sunny as we me all the white stuff. 67 in dallas, who even saw snow over the past weekend. that cold stormy wet weather is all headed to the east coast today. so have that umbrella handy from new york, philly, d.c., atl

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. >> not to be a procramer, but read andrew cramer. he is a print hall of famer. this couldn't be lamer. i am full of shamer. >> sad little paper you are. so will healthcare reform turn your house into a dorm? ma 11 yells, 20 somethings, they suck like something that sucks. at least according to the "washington post" located in washington, yes, in a story on monday, ian shapira notes that healthcare reform is encouraging young people to cling to their parents. and to be a dependent on mom and dad's health plan. it allows insurers to allow kids to remain until their 26th birthday regardless of work or marital status. so thanks to obama care, the start of independent adulthood isn't 18 or 21, but deep into the 20s. when he -- when these aging punks are living in a car or a tree. we asked the millenials to comment. >> ♪ i'm king and they know it >> too busy dancing to comment. could the healthcare bill be actually delaying adulthood by giving them something they don't have to work toward. >> i was disgusted when i read this. it is pandering and cod lig. i would be vi

afford to get them, and i got -- paid 50,000 for connor, and a couple years later i paid 35,000 for cramerust went from there. >> so you have $100,000 nearly invested in these two chimps, and that enclosure had to cost a fair amount of money. how much money is it to keep them? >> i would say i spend probably $15,000 a year feeding them. my outdoor enclosure cost me $100,000, my indoor enclosure cost me probably about $50,000. >> we are looking at these chimps now live, and it is fascinating, i have to say. my interest is piqued. dave, what is the difference between you, somebody who is trained to deal with these kind of animals, and someone like jeanne who has a great idea and thinks it would be fun to own a couple chimps? >> i think the difference is the education. i have my degree and i spent 12 years as an animal trainer. i understand the will to do it, but if you want to do something like this, you really have to do it in a professional manner and take care of the animals in a way that, you know, you can manage their whole lives, you can manage they're going to be healthily taken care

i felt the same way jim cramer and i did on the eve of the iraqi war. going back in 2003. but laslo, what could trip you up? is there a market signal, a market indicator, something that would cause you to pull back? >> the thing i'm concerned about now, is seeing some of the technicians who have sat on the sidelines for 60%, who all of a sudden say now that we've crossed some sort of number that this is a really -- now it's time to get in, and i'm seeing a little bit of capitulation along the bears. and you know, that's sort of -- >> would that be a volume sign, would that be a price sign? you know, we had a 10% or 8% correction earlier this year. we have now cruised right by that. is there one thing you can say to an investor tonight? because we need to be obviously sober and serious about this. euphoria is not a disease any of us want to catch after the events of recent years. is there one area you would encourage people to focus on for a negative sign? >> again, i think, you know, the market is not the cover of any magazine. those are the kind of anecdotal things which

presidential campaign books going back to teddy white's making the president of 1960 and others, richard ben cramer. there's been a great tradition of these kinds of books. in 2006, early 2007, the "new york times" magazine wrote a piece basically saying this of john was dead. that she just couldn't write these kinds of books anymore in an area that was, as you said, being covered excessively by 24 hour cable news or blogs that really had much more guarded candidates and campaigns. clearly, your book as you said a counterpoint to that. what were the challenges they'll of writing this kind of book that is going to be one for the history books but also one that's been written soon after the election in this kind of error of? >> is a great question. the first challenge is to find a publisher willing to buy the book. because we number of years, this genre went out of favor of publishers for exactly the reason you are suggesting, which is by the time you got to the end of a campaign, people felt they knew everything there was to know about it. and in many ways, they did know everything they really neede

richard ben cramer's book,"what it takes," has no index. and it was packaged for the same purpose. why should there be an index when you should buy the whole thing without wondering who's in it? the paperback version will have an index, i am told. but the goal here is to get someone interested in the book and the index is there if you want to follow through on the instructions at the back end. c-span: there are a couple restaurants in this town called red hot & blue... >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: ... and then in the back -- and we -- we played some of the music going in,we'll play some of it going out, but here's a -- is that the -- is that the cd cover? >> guest: that's the album cover. c-span: album cover? >> guest: and the album, of course, has been replaced by a cd that is now sold -- it -- the album is rather hard to find. it's a collector's item actually because it has b.b. king and chuck thomas and... c-span: chuck jackson. >> guest: chuck jackson and david... c-span: and sam moore... >> guest: sam moore. c-span: ... of sam and dave... >> guest: you got it. c-span: ... and lot

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