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cramer. s tonight i want to talk about building wealth in general and not just owning stocks in particular because stocks is one part of building the wheel. there's some people can make enough money from order anywhere yay day to day income to become truly rich. for vast majority of americans that paycheck is not enough. if you keep working i will tell you how to help you the rest of your life. truth is before you start investing in stocks there's a lot of other things you have to do if you want the pay off from those investments to mean something later in life when you it is fruitless to think you can get rich in stocks if you haven't laid the foundation for long term wealth before hand. you can make a fortunate in the market but if you are hem rajing money portfolio won't do much for you. there are three absolute necessariety etiety etthings you need before owning a stock. here on mad money i feel remiss for not teaching this more often. few colleges teach you a thing about managing your fi

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. >> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to mad money! my name is cramer. caution, caution should not be thrown to the wind when the fed starts tightening. sure the market can go higher but you have to be more skeptical of upward moves. that's why post the first rate hike in years i'm more wary on the market, even when the dow plunged 253 points, nasdaq lost 1.35%. why am i so certain we need to be more skeptical going forward? because historyi's on my side. marty. that's why. he was among the great titans of our history. he knew more about the stock market than anyone i've ever known. i devoured anything he ever said. he was an inspiration to me and millions of others. and he counselled me and others to try to make money in the stock market. central to his thesis of investing was, and i quote, don't fight the fed. when the fed was raising rates, you have to be cognizant that the wind was going from your back to your face. a tail wind has become a head wind. federal reserve policies were dominant factors in determining the overall direction of the market. i

>> caller: cramer, tim calling from california.interested in the land over group. >> that's good. i think that ace limited is the best in show. that gentlemen is in conclusion of the jets giants, lighting round. >> the lighting round is spon r sponsored by t and t aameritrade. for each feature we release. ameritrade. like social signals, &t . to help with research. a 10,000 suggestions. who reads all those? he does. for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. >>> csc and that's going to break up into two public companies. one to serve commercial clients and another would serve the u.s. government. last month that plan was finally approved by the board of directors and the play was named csra and then on monday the splitd up happened and then i want dodd this piece because i saw them ring the bell, and i hated them having knowledge. you know what, i better know what i am doing. now the computer science break up has happened. are are either of them worth owning? i have to tackle the issue because i can tell you that

tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. navy navy. >>> with the federal reserve poised to raise interest rates for the first time in eight years later this month, we need to reassess a big pool of stocks. the high yielding bond market alternative plays that will become less attractive as the fed tightens. which stocks in particular? many of the utilities and pipeline stocks. those are some bond market alternatives. the same goes for real estate investment trusts. some of these are hanging in there and performing a lot better than you think. take federal realty, mostly in wealthy and densely populated areas like the northeast, california, florida. particularly mall-based chains have been struggling but federal realty has been performing pretty darn well. it's up 8.4% of the year before distributions. in part that's because when the company last reported a little over a month ago, it beat wall street's top a

have a question, tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >> 14 months ago a small entertaining/dining chain dave and busters was at $17 a share. now dave and busters play for you home gamers is a unique story. across the country they have 79 venues parts restaurant, sports bar and gaming center. apart from old school gaming favorites to the newest most high-tech video games. dave and busters is a chuck e. cheese for grown ups and make no mistake it's about as successful as it gets in the restaurant entry right now. they shot the lights out. and an earnings beat off the basis on higher than expected sales that increase by 17.9% year on year. phenomenal sales growth. best of all dave and busters raised the forecast for 2014. and just now starting to get credit for that amazing quarter and given the massive expansion opportunity i bet it has more room to run. let's take a closer look at steve king and learn more about how his

have a question, tweet cramer, wash cramer, #mad tweets. send him an e-mail or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> are we really supposed to believe that junk bonds are now the cheapest they have been in ages? are we supposed to accept that conventional wisdom now that the fed raised interest rates for the first time in years? having them knee deep researching the funds that the notion of the whole sector is ludicrous. there's health care and consumer junk paper connected with those that haven't been able to access markets because of the scout market for ipos. in some cases that paper does seem cheap relative to what could happen if they're able to access the public markets. there's a lot of debt connected to retailers that went private. it's underpriced if the consumer gets stronger or the job market gets better than it is right now. they're all mall based and i have no real conviction in those companies before. around minerals, mining, steal, iron, coal and oil. so much has to go right for thes

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joe. >> he will low, cramer.eautiful melissa lee had nothing but great things to say about you. it was a lot of fun. my stock is hain. >> it missed the quarter. he has to do a better job. natural organic brand names no longer maertters as much. that's part of the problem. let's go to bob in washington. bob. >> big booyah too you jim from tacoma washington. >> no, that is troubled. i'm not going there. andrew in new york. andrew. >> andrew. >> booyah, jim. big booyah with cheese on top. >> i like that. >> my stock is valero. >> oil is down a lot and the refineries continue to make money. i'm not a fan but people do love it. mike in ohio, mike. >> hey, jim, how are you? love the show. >> thank you. >> what's your opinion on equifax. >> that is just a financial service company that this market loves and i have to agree that the market is right. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> lightning round is sponsored by t.d. ameritrade. working 24/7 on mobile trader, rated #1 trading

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cramer. welcome back to crazy town. that's that odd city where everyone does everything wrong, buying the wrong stocks, reaching the wrong conclusions and taking the wrong risks which is what happened today. and the nasdaq climbed .65%. what exactly defines crazy town? false god of higher oil. or even the demigod of slightly higher oil. this bullish stock pandering to the rising stock of oil was a threefold impact on the market that defines crazy town because it's so darn positive. why do the bulls like -- what do they like about all of us paying more at the pump or having our goods be more expensive because of the cost of energy? first to the crazy town aficionados, higher oil means less stress to the system. we are nowhere near the point where we don't need to worry about oil and gas companies going belly up. we need it at $45 a barrel to keep most companies alive in this country. there's some cheaper oil, but it's being used up by cash strapped firms going after the lowest hanging fruit in

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hey i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends and i'm trying to make you money. my job is to teach and coach and explain days like today. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. right now, right now we're in the heart of liquidation season. not familiar with that situation in well, you better be. it's very much behind a great deal of the negative action you saw on your screen today, dow plunging 367 points, s&p plunging 7.8%, it was an awful day for the bulls. liquidation season is when the clients of poorly performing hedge funds ask for their money back near the end of the quarter or the year, whenever the fund opens and the hedge fund is obliged to sell the stocks, raise cash in the open market in order to get the money back into the hands of the investors, who are clamoring to get out of the fund. if your fund has a terrible performance, you can bet it's besieged with liquidation requests. you don't believe me? you better. i covered it in my book. redemption is cold and bloodless. n

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i'm jim cramer.ee you next time. >> imagine a store with no signs in the aisles, a store that doesn't bag your purchases, one that never advertises, where you have to pay a fee just to walk in the door. who in the world would shop here? as it turns out, about 3 million fanatically loyal customers every day. it's called costco... >> i love costco. >> i bought ground beef. >> lawn furniture. >> a television. >> i bought my engagement ring here. >> ...a chain of stripped-down warehouses that's become a sensation at home and abroad. >> [ speaking chinese ] >> but its crowning achievement -- convincing you

tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> if everyone in this country went insane and decided to turn american into cramerican with me as your king you better believe i'd be making changes and changes front toe, but because this is a show about money i'm going to stick to the financial elements because the fact is it drives me nuts that we don't to handle money. would it be so crazy if you had taken a place in personal finance before you graduate from high school. i think that should be mandatory. like our awkward health classes. sadly i am nobody's dictator and i don't have any influence over educational policy in this country but i do control what we talk about on this show. can i take a moment to speak words we all believe but rarely get to say in conversation? look, money is important. it's really important. and caring about the state of your finances does knots make you some kind of superficial bourgeois monster. l

stick with cramer. >> don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. head to madmoney.cnbc.com. >> okay. what companies can we rely upon in this crazy town environment? you may not have noticed this last friday when the dow plunged over 350 points no one was paying attention but two companies reported extremely impressive quarters that the first of these companies was the parent company of olive garden and longhorn stake. a couple of the smaller brands so what allowed them to go from $58 up to $68 in change? we don care about where stock has been. first of all for years we know that it's probably the most sensitive to the price of gasoline and while they didn't mention it on the conference call you better believe they're benefitting from the price when you fill up your gas tank. however i don't want it to sound like they're only driven by the dumb luck of oil prices. this company has bee