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welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. every night i come out here for two reasons. the first is i like the attention. and second and more important reason is i want to help you build and preserve your wealth we live in a world where it is difficult to become rich if you are not born that way. and i believe the stock market is the best ladder we have simply aren't that many jobs that pay you a salary fat enough to make you rich even if you are a total cheap skate and save every single penny you make that means planning your financial strategy for an entire lifetime if you don't have a high paying job, as long as you can save a chunk of your paycheck, and invest year after year, you can become, if not filthy rich, at least come financially independent. and you will be able to retire easily without the need to rely on social security that why tonight, i want to help you figure out the best way to manage your mone

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. let's see, italian bonds spiked in the sky, it didn't fall we

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. it's the end of the quarter as we know it a quarter that started out with a wimper and continued to wimper with exception

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.ertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. as expected, the market had its best week if ages. dow gaining 75 points.

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.ot just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. so the president socked the chinese with tariffs on $50 billion worth of merchandise and investors, what did they

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. even the best leader isn't enough to get this market roaring. if no one else is willing to follow nasdaq gained .41% i am thrilled that the tech heavy nasdaq remains strong. without tech, i think the bull would be toast but the truth is that while a ogroups are rng the way here, namely techs and retail if we don't get followers soon, this can spell the end of the advance. sure, apple is up again gaining nearly a dollar and inching towards a trillion dollar market amazon is making its move in the trillion dollar horse race too rising $31 netflix was off to the races again up $4 for no apparent reason so many so-called professionals who follow the stock every day, could prince coupa which made a fabulous move higher today gaining. could that be a beginning of th? all day today i was kicking myself falling all over to recommend ahead of thursday's earnings report unfortunatel

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. let's see, italian bonds spiked in the sky, it didn't fall we put tariff steel on the moon, and the wheel, they didn't fall off the bus. then we got today's amazing employment report and the market showing the true colors. dow gaining, nasdaq pole vaulting 1.51% our economy is in great shape some of when our stocks trade on the united states not italy or germany or china or canada, we roar higher. the single most data point for the market is the labor department's payroll figure. and this was nothing short of spectacular. the thing you need to remember about the employment numbers is that everything else that you hear about on tv or in the paper its impact lasts i did a study on this particular aspect on "get rich. that positive prism will suf fuse the thinking of portfolio managers or 5% for emd yes, it is that powerful and we will keep viewing things through that positiv

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. wall street loves growth on a day where the dow drifted 42 points lower. i can't stress this enough we want growth if there are tariffs. we want growth with no tariffs we want growth if the fed is tightening we want growth if the fed is not tightening we would by growth on a boat we will buy growth why f.a.n.g can keep roaring higher, all time high for a lot of them. why thor industries came alive today, the hammer. and why starbucks is being laid to waste it is about growth and nothing but the growth let's start with disney's cash and stock boost this very morning. for some crucial 21st century fox assets all cash offer from last week. disney is willing to fork over 30 bucks a share now it stands to reason that comcast can pay more suburb cash flow now believes the cable kingpin can come up with more higher bid why are disney and comcast willing to pay this money. it is a

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. so the president socked the chinese with tariffs on $50 billion worth of merchandise and investors, what did they do? of course they panicked. eventually they calmed down. with the dow only using 85 points. the nasdaq declining .9% many bulls were hardened that the stock market sclclawed its y back up. it shouldn't have become as a surprise and the market shouldn't have been hit all that hard in the first place. if china decides to respond aggressively, and tariffs do sound aggressive, so we probably will get hit again so don't get cozy about the rebound. now with that in mind, let's go to our game plan for next week this could be a tumultuous series of days particular with the new tariffs that just came out tonight many investors believe the president will be rational and the tariffs will be put off eventually that is not president trump's idea of rational listen to what

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. do not say i didn't warn you i've been telling you for months that president trump wants this trade war with china and the stock market will not like it. i said it will be the principle risk to 2018 returns sure enough we got slammed today. question is, who is the better hand, the people's republic of china or the united states of america. now that the trade war is really and truly here, meaning we are at last fighting back, i think it is worth dwee devoting to finding out which side will win. everyone loses in the latter, and especially those of you who own stocks i want to take down the disadvantages and the advantages of both sides. we have the upper hand because we import far more stuff from china than they import from us there are far more chinese jobs here at stake than american ones if the fair riftariffs are punie enough, they may pull up stakes. we know from marti

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> either i am very lucky or the bullish gods were listening to last night's show, and they decided to slaughter a few bears. rally dow surging. and yet another decline in the dollar which helps get the multinationals quite jiggy more leadership, it has to broaden out. we could rally if we got something beyond the banks and the retailers, like health care, industrials and transport. ten out of 11 sectors went higher and if you are a bull, a glorious thing to see. unlike yesterday we had tech and retail, today's action had a lot going for it let's start by taking down the most visible winners, they are what leadership is, first is jpmorgan this move is classic as desperate left from behind bulls glom on to anything that is still available that might be cheap. jpmorgan is having the time of its life they are killing it in europe. deutsche bank keeps cutting and cutting. i t

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or today was a lot less placid than it looked. while the market certainly looked comatose, we're witnessing some tremendous break break outs all over the place. break outs that would be held back by the gravitational pull, yes, politics. that is amazing given the gauntlet the market has to run you can argue that rates have risen dramatically shout they be blasted? long the sector, like the housing group, they have been rallying like mad especially after the president's big g7 thblow up. obviously the market doesn't seem to care or it likes trump's action as for the earnings, they are positive even when they are perceived negatively, but what about profit taking? come on, what could counteract people ringing the register so natural? simple being off set by target boosts let's start with price target boost. they are impacting stock left and right. this morning an innocuous note from wells fargo abo

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. it's the end of the quarter as we know it a quarter that started out with a wimper and continued to wimper with exception of texts and domestic small stock the dow gained and the s&p advanced and the nasdaq declined this has not been a great three months and i wonder what the last days of the quarter is going to hold for us i want to make something very clear. if you think president trump has gotten aggressive on trade, fooi fighting back, you ain't seen nothing yet. trump is fixated on auto, steel, aluminum tariffs foreign companies in mexico. nafta be damned. the president sees a remarkable job creations for many of the things he is doing so in his view, the poll isicy s working. and for the same reason, i bet he will demeanand that china st opening its markets. joint ventures have been ways to steal intellectual property from y us you have to expect there can be no truc

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. can we really just move onto the next thing that quickl removing north korean menace and the market shrugs. you know what, it makes perfect sense. you see, you can't process the stock market implications because there may be no implications at all. maybe it goes nowhere. at most you sell a couple of defense stocks north korea may have big weapons, it is a small country even if they denuke larz no leader, goes into talks with the most powerful nation on earth in ord to dismantle its country, but it is possible. sure, north korea like the old east germany is a client state, it is basically a puppet oe chinese. if china wants the kim family gone, poof, they are gone. as far as the stock market is concerned, it doesn't matter if north korea keeps its nukes or gives them up or gets a knnew regime any spoils will go to south korean companies like kia, samsung. how much did china

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. and don't be gloomy. you see, every day the sense of gloom seems to grow more palpable including today. nasdaq inches up one policely point. at one point we were down dramatically and it seemed like the whole world was hitting the exits at once i don't want to dismiss the worries about tariffs or rising rates. but at some point we need to remember that we have a blazing hot economy here and yet the negativity is so pervasive and so down right, it's all encompassing that if i were one of these firms that would gin up a etfs, it would be gloom. it would trade under the term glum bulls who are for the moment chicken, just blow it out. those of us with more composure might end up buying it or shorting the glum index. but i have to tell you, it's out of control, people what would i put in this glum index? let's start with caterpillar people sell caterpillar every time they feel

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. on a great day for the bulls, where the dow gained 180 points and the nasdaq climbed .69% to a new time high. we need a new acronym for tech f.a.n.g is not cutting it. if you want to understand the strength in the nasdaq, you need a new acronym. say hello to i.n. f.a.n.g. let's go to apple. not long ago it was a trading vehicle for a quick gain none of the things that should have really mattered to analysts things like customer loyalty, incredible products, the most admired brand on earth none of those seem to mean anything to the technology they just knew apple was a hardware company with a tapped out product. no netflix killer, no year long battery life no, sirri system that crushes alexa. but what these critics were missing, is that apple doesn't just have the best love tech people buy the phone and pay services directly from apple or buy developer apps on display at th

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. as expected, the market had its best week if ages. dow gaining 75 points. s&p rising nasdaq gaining that is what happens so can the dow and the s&p take out their january highs from before the market had its big tariff induced blow off? there is a chance it might had been not because of earnings, we have almost no reports but because of the president and the fed. before we get to our game plan, i want to point out there are too many people who trade-off of tweets and fears whenever the trade hard liners members speak, the market gets hammered trade is a work in progress. so i continue to buy the market in any severe downturns. we had the best action three months ahead of the dow and ahead of the g7 meeting, ahead of the summit. on monday morning, we will get to see the fall out of the canadian g7 meetings i don't think i have ever mentioned one before, not even in passing

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.y job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. this show, this show is based on one heretical idea that it is popping f possible for you if you work at it, to make more money investing for yourself than you would be hiding out in bonds. the pundits and commentators say it is too hard that ordinary investors it is too hard i know you can do it as long as you are willing to put in the time and effort. and i know you are succeeding at individual investing when you stop me and you tell me about your big wins and you know it because you tweet me at. that is why tonight i am devoting this show to educating you. sharing important lessons i have learned. before i can start teaching you, there are lessons i need you to unlearn. myths about the market that need to be demolished one of the most pernicious is the notion that the market is always rational. on any given day, the action anybody the market can be completely nonsensical

welcome to cramerica hepeople want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. pause. yup, today, the fed hit the pause button on the rally, making it clear they favor more rate hikes than expected we come to believe only trade war could derail the economy is too hot the feds feel compel to take more action. ral reserve is doing the prudent thing, raising rates that made buyers more cautious what did you do? recognize that owning stocks just got harder. sure we have been rallying despite the increase in rates. but with each additional rate hikes, it makes lending more expensive. zero reason for panic, the market plummeted and then bounced back and then it gave up the ghost near the bell as it is just a fact of life that higher interest rates translate into more investors wanting to swap out stocks and go to bonds we had a red hot price effects this morning when the fed says the economy accelerated that makes many investors assume that inflation could

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. can we really just move onto the next thing tha

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welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.ot just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. even the best leader isn't enough to get this market roaring. if no one else is willin

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you some money.ot just to entertain but to educate and teach you so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. every night i come out here for two reasons. the first is i like the attention. and second and more importan

welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you some money my job is not just to der entertain you but educate you so call me at 800-734-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> discipline trumps conviction i say it over and over and over again. no matter how much you may love a stock or enthralled you are with a company, if the rules say sell it you sell it. one thing i've learned in my investing career, no matter how much you might believe in something, you violate the rules of the road at your own peril. but where the he can do these rules come from? it's not like they were handed down from on high and carved on to stone tablets they're not like the laws of physics, you can't deduce them from serving the way the market works the way you can deduce gravity. no, the rules come from experience, in particular my experience i've spent nearly 40 years in this business anden in that time you better believe i've learned powerful lessons in many cases, i learned them the hard way and because i don't want you to repeat my mistakes, because i want you to have the b

"mad money" starts now >> hey, i'm cramer welcome to "mad money" welcome to cramerica other people want to make friends i'm just trying to make you money. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet at jim cramer. today's market was very simple everything entertainment related caught fire. anything else got left in the dust that's because of a high stakes bidding war between comcast and business for some key fox assets a federal judge just blessed the time warner deal with no strings attach attached we're seeing it for the key group and all of those that support it but as for everything else, it's not so hot which is why the dow gave 26 points today while the s&p inched up .25% while the nasdaq crushed it gaining .86% now before i get into the nitty-gritty of this stunning bull market and entertainment related stocks let's talk about what didn't work today it's pretty important. a key group for the overhaul health of the market, they were hammered because they can't make as much money as we thought thanks to the flat yield curve just slightly higher rates than what they're paying for the deposit

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"mad money" starts now >>> hey, i'm cramer, welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you some money my job isn't just to entertain, it's to teach you. so call me or tweet m me @jimcramer. >>> the stock market isn't always a friendly place. it can be volatile, painful, and just down right difficult. there are tons of

"mad money" starts now >> hey, i'm cramer welcome to "mad money" welcome to cramerica other people wantends i'm just trying to make you money. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet at jim cramer. today's market was very simple everything entertainment related