that's where it announces big pay raises, and now according to a crucial update by goldman sac sachs. think yesterday's announcement might save them another huge buy-back it authorization. a little profit taking after hours but that was off a company we are going to talk about later in the show. i'm sure some of you are thinking, cramer, you come up with anything positive to say about anything negative. isn't this indicative of wild, desperate buying, classic blow-off-top you know, i might have at another time said that wait a second. it's about the shortage of stock. so many shares of companies have been retired so many are owning, no longer renting their stocks those of you who trade stocks in hundreds or thousands of shares will never have to worry about this but if you're buying in blocks of 100,000 shares, any meaningful purchase is going to leave huge footprints. for those of you who say nope, i'm not going to play this game, i've got an idea for you, too. all these stocks, you know i don't like to chase as one of my rules in "get rich carefully." take a look at the sock in gold

i used to work with goldman sac sachs, so i'm just going to make an announcement.'m tired of this. i'm tired of being the cassandra and chicken little and party pooper. some of you are tired of hearing me. i'm tired of asking you guys to make motions and nothing happening. i've taken all the arrows in the back. i've been the strongest advocate of the hedge funds. i've talked to leona since october. i've mentioned joining the board. her position expires. i am going to seek that position. i don't think i'm going to get it. i have no political connections, but i'm tired of sitting up here and sounding like a fool for three years. so i will send you a long thing on it friday or monday explaining my reasons. >> thank you, mr. furland. are there any other members of the public that would like to address the commission regarding the chief investment officer report? seeing none, we'll close public comment. next item, please. >> item 10, the deferred compensation manager report. >> good afternoon, commissioners. before you is the monthly activity report. i do have a couple