acute acute tremendousment yes, some mad tweets on jim cramer at twitter. jim, do you often encourage gamers to do their homework. i don't recall you specifying exactly what you suggest should be involved in doing our homework. my version is to listen t t evey word on "mad money" and checking charts. what else do you suggest we do? first of all, i wrote a book. that's the starter. you hear a stock you like, you go to the website. the websites these days have almost everything. you read about the past two quarters. i like to read the annual report. that i like to dall what the analysts are saying. i like to see what can be in the pipe. i like to see what the dividend is. these are all a part of the process long before i would think of pulling the trigger. and, by the way, i would like to think, what would make them sell it, if they missed certain things, if they missed things that went up high. it all starts with the website. >>> here is one from trace, hi, jirnlgs as we all know, the department of defense is planning to downsize the military over the next f

>>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts, they're nuts! they know nothing! i always like to say, there's a bull market somewhere and i promise -- "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to teach and to coach, so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. there's some things i've been keeping from you. it's not fair. tonight i'm going to do something about it. tonight i'm going to tell you who i am and how i got here. no, not i am jim cramer of "mad money," "squawk on the street" and that avatar comes up many times these days. it did take my years to learn that avatar was not a movie. what i want to do tonight is a special show. remember, in the end, this is cramerica. i'm going to give you the skinny on how i became a good investor, how i can help you become better than i've ever been. that is the ultimate g

don't go anywhere, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts, they're nuts! they know nothing! i always like to say, there's a bull market somewhere and i promise -- "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to teach and to coach, so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. listen up, okay! listen up! this, right here, this is europe, okay? this is the united states, all right? this, this is china, all right? we are here, they're over there. and they're over there, okay? you with me so far? we have 310 million people. these guys have about 739 million people. these guys have 1.3 billion people. i want you to keep this geography lesson in mind. because it is taking control of the averages on almost a daily basis and i can't do anything about it! including today, where the dow sank 81 points

this is where you call me or tweet at jim cramer.y, there are great tweets at jim cramer in villanova. you got to look at it. you give me your top five holding, maybe you need to mix it up a little. why don't we start off with maxim in puerto rico. what do have you for me? >> caller: how are you doing? boo-yah, boo-yah, jim. >> i like that. what's up? >> caller: trying to see what you are paying on my portfolio i have lpk, fb, facebook, lmg, lcc, asce pop eye, what do you think? >> all right. let's look at this there is two ways to look at a portfolio. one is to say are they all in the same budget. that would be bad t. other is to consider the speculation budget t. problem is is opco and shaneer. i like that. we will ring the register shaneer for you. we can't have that much specs. pop eyes, i like get usairways is terrific. i think that is terrific. facebook by travel trus has been established in positioning. you can follow get drug and let's do instead haneer, why don't we put in some chevron, okay. we get an oil that's not specula

jim. >> caller: mr. cramerjim, bbb boo-yah to ya. >> i'm liking that. >> caller: thank you for your dedication, your help and razor-sharp wit. i've been watching biotechs for a good entry point. i notice dropped 16% and i'm scared. >> we were waiting, remember, they've got other drugs, initial drug, they don't have the good royalty arrangement. and that's why i want you to pull the trigger and buy. let's go to jeff in florida. jeff. >> caller: hey, jim, how are you doing? >> how about you? >> caller: great job there. thank you. >> caller: doing a great job there. listen, i just want to know, what do you think about dollar tree? >> you know i like dollar tree and the one in south florida, one of the best, and neptune. let's go to irma in florida. >> caller: hi, irma blake here from sunny venice, florida. >> i'll be right near there this weekend. what's up? >> caller: i would like to know your opinion about mdu resources. >> you know, i like mdu resources. got a good yield, a steady business. and i recommend it.

>>> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. firms are going to go out of business, he's nuts, they're nuts, they know nothing. i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money, " welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain but educate and teach you. call me 1-800-743-cnbc. by now, unless are you in an underground bunker, you know the economy stumbled badly on the job creation front last month. a nonfarm payroll increase of 88,000 in this country is downright embarrassing. the pathetic number initially caused the mark to tank. down one point 171 points, but the whole cycle -- everything is so compressed in this market, that by 11:00 a.m., we were rebounding, thanks to a wave of overseas buyers. plummeting interest rates in our countries, making high yield like the real estate trust and drug and smokestacks more attractive. the smoke stacks had already been

mad money with jim cramer. weeknights at 6:00 and 11:00 on cnbc. >>> welcome back to a bizarrely special mad money where i am trying to teach you life lessons and investing in my life. i am not a dollar sign represented by a man or a stock symbol for that matter. ticker jim. i have stumbled around the stock market long enough to learn a thing or two. tonight you're getting some of that wisdom from the school of hard knocks. that is what i attended when it came to stocks. you're getting the on tv version right here right now. we covered how i first got involved, my fourth agreed ledger obsessed with tracking the stock market. the greatest game, not monopoly, but stocks and bonds with its stock certificates and its game board and is all the cool do dads. about what would send a stock higher? don't you love that? you keep track. you love that, you keep track? i left the stock market games behind me by the time i got to middle school. we called it junior high back then. my obsession became sports, i was the second

♪ >>> i'm jim cramer. welcome to the sovereign state of cramerica.oming to you today from the villanova school of business! [ cheers ] a lot of people want to make friends, but i just want to make you money because my job is not just to entertain you, to educate you. so tweet me at jim cramer hashtag at villanova. stocks, stocks are about the future. we get concerned about the sequester and the faa and the airplanes. we can freak out about spanish unemployment or disappointing results from a semi conductor or a supermarket stock or a big multinational like 3 million. the average is neglected to really reflect that negativity. the dow is gaining 25 points, s&p advancing .39%. nasdaq climbing .26%. but never forget, stocks represent a call on the future, not just the present and not next week or next month, either. even as short-term considerations so often prevail in the convention of wisdom that you hear every day. what a terrific opportunity here on the campus of the great villanova business school to talk about the future, to talk about what it mea

it's free when you register or visit the member >> jim cramer, and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business, and he is nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing. >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money", you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money". welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, and i'm trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain, but i'm here to teach and coach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. what a pleasure it is to focus on companies and earnings after weeks of worries about china and cyprus and the sequester. earning reports begin in ernest next week, and while we have a taste of it with big bank earnings today from jp morgan and wells fargo, neither of which set the world on fire, partially causing the market to get dinged today, dow dropped to less than a point. s&p back slightly. nasdaq climbing .16%. it's next week that will tell us if this miraculous run is on borrowed time or still on target. with that in mind plan for next

follow at jim cramer on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer. #madtweets. send jim and e-mail at cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com . >>> even though the average challenges are high, remember, you need to have safety in your portfolio, in fact. you need to have some safety if only for the purpose of diversification, few things are safer than a utility. take american electric power, it owns the largest power company in the country and is one of the largest makers of electricity as well. now, the environmental protection agency has been hounding this company because it makes dirty coal. aep places orders to bring that down to 50% by 2020 it could to be larger than that by switching to natural gas. aep is disappointed off the top. the company reported this morning, there is a 1% earnings miss. management re-affirmed its guidance the rest of the year. this stock has been great. we know america practices a lot of business in ohio, where they plan to separate the power generation biz into a subsidiary area by th

cnbc's jim cramer joins the conversation this morning. >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the world's longest running television program, this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >>> and good sunday morning. battles at home and abroad for the president as congress returns monday from a two-week easter recess. it's shaping up to be a spring filled with debate on the budget, immigration and guns. and now overseas a brewing crisis in north korea as the president tries to defuse escalating tensions. at the center of it all a young, untested leader, kim jong-un, who is making increasingly strident warnings about an imminent war with south korea and the u.s. apparently upset about new, tougher u.n. sanctions and recent joint south korean military exercises. the escalating rhetoric has u.s. officials quite unnerved. defense secretary hagel announcing this weekend a decision to postpone a long scheduled missile test to avoid making an already tense situation even worse. secretary of state kerry left yesterday for the middle east, but he'll be traveling on to seoul and beijing late

we loved all your questions and pictures you tweeted@jim cramer.itter blog, maybe you will see your tweet. now it is time for the lightning round. my staff, wait until you hear this sound, then the lightening round is over. are you ready? it is time for the lightning round! i'm going to start with chris in nebraska. chris! >> caller: hey, jim, how are you doing? >> real good, how are you, partner? >> caller: great. i'm a former çppgm employee, he quite a bit of stock amassed and i noticed there for a while it was going down and just kind of wanted to get your thoughts on what i should do with it. >> i can make this one real simple, bye-bye buy. it's incredible. a nice quarter. >>> let's go to adam in new jersey. adam. >> caller: jim, how you doing? >> real good. how are you? >> caller: i'm doing good, thanks. a real quick question. i'm short, earnings were splamplt i just don't know is this buy on rule morks sell on fact? what do we have going on? >> multiple approvals coming up between now and the end of the year. they have a big young psychologi

follow a's jim cramer on twitter. have a question, tweet cramer has tag mad tweets. send an e-mail to mad money a's cnbc.com or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. missed something, head to mad money.cnbc.com. >> with the market roaring today, s. and p. 500 hitting a brand-new all-time high, you don't want to hear my preaching about the virtues of caution and discipline, but that's just what i'm going to do. my job is investing. you know that unlike a lot of the talking heads out there, i met a huge fan of the bull. like most of you at home. i love it when stocks go higher. but i also believe we need to be prepared in case one of the many warnings, the jeremiads from the endless legion of bears, comes through. that doesn't mean you sell all your stocks. i took a call earlier and someone said i really nervous. i said don't sell your stocks. wanted to sell everything. no, some of the stocks that rallied in the first quarter, i understand taking some off of the table but you can dump everything that moved up a lot, maybe lock in some games. i'm not in favor of that either

follow @jim cramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer #mad tweets.end him an e-mail at "mad money" or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney@cnbc.com. welcnew york state, where cutting taxes for families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs, cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years, and we're creating tax free zones for business startups. the new new york is working creating tens of thousands of new businesses, and we're just getting started. to grow or start your business visit thenewny.com >>> general electric gets it. today, ge paid $3.3 billion for a stock we suggested would get a takeover bid -- lufkin. because ge wants to dominate the oil and the natural gas service industries. i have liked leff kin ever since i want to the balken shale. we stood in front of the nodding donkeys. it can be shipped to writ is needed. it's a crucial part of the oil and gas food chain that is indispensable to getting it o

i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing. i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm trying to make money. my job is to educate, teach and coach, so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. earnings season. i dread earnings season. why? because it is overwhelming with so many companies reporting at once, so much data being thrown at you. because it's hard to keep track of expectations and to know what is better-than-expected. the whisper, what the real benchmark must be beaten is. no, it's because i have a really bad back and i can't stand carrying out those printed out versions of conference calls in downtown manhattan to my studio here where i do "mad money." but tonight i want to do something different. i want to offer you a new way to use earnings season to put it in perspective, because most of you watching the show are

i'm jim cramer, i will see you tomorrow! >>> good evening, everyone, i'm larry kudlow.s is "the kudlow report." on the six-month i was in of superstorm sandy, chris christie came out all over the media world with both guns blazing that he was right to work with president barack obama on the eve of last fall's election. you know what, he has a 67% approval rating. you know what else, he's a contender. now, a big day in the market. believe it or not, the italians formed a government. that seemed to have wall street cheer. inflation is fallings, consumers are spending, the fed will keep on pumping. bet on get

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. >>> if you want to navigate through this market, that's becoming more difficult by the day, right? what you need more than anything else is consistency. and believe it or not, despite the startling plunge in the price of oil, few companies are more consistent than the high-quality pipeline operators, like cramer fave kinder morgan energy partners, symbol kmp for you home gamers, plus in a world that's starved for yield, kinder morgan pays a monster dividend and it's up more than 5.77%, more than triple the return you would get from ten-year u.s. treasuries. kinder morgan is the largest pipeline player out there, 73,000 miles of pipe. roughly 180 terminals. company ships everything from refined gas to carbon dioxide. with the price of crude down $8 a barrel in the last couple of weeks, how come kmp is only a point away from its all-time high? simple, because as i always say, t

>> "jaws." >> you are a loser. ♪ >>> time for some mad tweets @jim cramer on twitter.e's the back to school tour tweet from@estrada 1030. look who i found wandering villanova's campus. so excited for "mad money" to visit. that's right. april 25th we're going to nova, and all have you to do is #mmnova if you want to know more about it. that's the smartest, sweetest girl at villanova, according to my executive producer from the best family in america. hi, anna. next one from adam fsu. hey, listen, lived next -- i lived next to gem right there on campus. he writes, "do you like still diana shipping?" yes, don't be a slave to the way a stock is trading. diana, radeon, u.s. air. those are my three speks for the we're. this one comes from@phil steve who says have about a 25% gain on kmp, concerned morgan. should i take some off the table or let it ride? i want you to wait for the double. kinder morgan reports next week. we'll try to be in touch where i i think it's going to be a terrific quarter. the el paso deal and the copenao deal. steve, do not hit the ejust a minute for

"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game! going out of business and they're nuts! they know nothing! >> always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. "mad money." you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to kra mare ka. other people want to make friends. i just want days like today because my job is not just to entertain but to educate and to coach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. in this corner, we have the former heavyweight champion weighing in at two tons, caterpillar! and in the opposite corner, we've got the reigning king, conagra, coming in at, well, let's see, how much exactly does a slim jim weigh? depends on the jim! okay. this is a battle royale for the soul of the market. got the king right here. now, this market got punched in the face today. with the dow taking a 112-point hit. s&p plunging 1.05%, nasdaq tumbling 1.11%. and you can thank these boys, caterpillar and it cohort, for this hideous decline. let's give an assist to north korea, whic

>> jim cramer with us. you are a glass half full kind of guy. that's what you say. but you didn't find anything in this report that made you feel that way. >> this is one number that i take very seriously. this was not a good number. it wasn't like the market didn't see it coming. you have these incredible moves in the kimberlys and color roxs. and today people are saying you know what? maybe that's why those stocks ran. on sunday night we get inflation numbers. people look at china and say they have been off the grid and the baltic drive has been down for days. maybe people are saying you know what? the communist chinese see what's happening in the world and they're going to do something. it's something that is driving the market. >> i was listening to a great debate on the halftime show exit was is the trade about dividend tired? i'm not done on stocks. i'm not making anything on bonds. not only do i make nothing on the bonds but they're taxed at an outrageous price. >> i just think that they have been, if you take a look, 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 20 years they have been

. >> jim cramer leveling the playing field next. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome the my world. >> you need to get into the game. >> and firms are going to go out of business and they are nuts, they are nuts, they know nothing. >> i always like to say there is a bull market somewhere and maria, you can"mad money," you can't afford the miss it. i'm cramer and welcome to cramerica. some people want to entertain you, but my job is to educate you. call me at 800-700-cnbc. en before the tragedy in boston, there was a market decline because of the stunning events in boston, massachusetts. why going down before that though? frankly, it was a self-fulfilling day, and the best encapsulated by the following wisdom, everyone else is selling so don't we have to sell, too? with the dow jones slipping, and the s ashgts and p 2.3 p%, and nasdaq with the worst day in a long time, what was going on with the stock market? why weak from to get-go? now, i kept my ear to the ground all day and frankly, i want to tell the truth out here, i could not find a single truly cogent or plausible reason that the ma

don't go anywhere, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to myeed to get in the game! firms are going to go out of business and he's nuts, they're nuts! they know nothing! i always like to say, there's a bull market somewhere and i promise -- "mad money," you can't afford to miss it. hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends, i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you, but to teach and to coach, so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. listen up, okay! listen up! this, right here, this is europe, okay? this is the united states, all right? this, this is china, all right?

i'm jim cramer.w in villanova. >> he was literally the man behind the door. >> narrator: arthur nadel conjures a $330 million hedge fund that's all hocus-pocus. >> he was the number-one subject in the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars. >> nadel is charged with running what's been described as a mini-madoff scheme. >> narrator: in the blink of an eye, nadel disappears without a trace, leaving clients without their life savings. >> you just question, how are you gonna make it -- how are you gonna make it happen? [ sniffles ]

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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. >>> just because the market had a fabulous day today doesn't mean you can afford to stop playing some defense with high-yielding food stocks that can thrive, even when the global economy is in dire straits. take long-time cramer fave b & g foods, with a record of buying neglected brands from larger players, private equity firms, and bringing them back to life. you might know b & g as pickles. b & g just reported last thursday and the company delivered an excellent quarter with in-line earnings and revenues that came in higher than expected, rising 8.8% year over year. we don't have a lot of companies in the food business that gained like that. meanwhile, the company raise its guidance, earnings before interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization. it jumped from $28 to $30 the next day and continuing to climb, $31.08 and 3.75% yield at these levels. b & g has given you a

>>> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! >> firms are going to go out of business, and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing! >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere, and i promise -- >> "mad money." you can't afford to miss it. >> hey, i'm cramer! welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you a little money. my job, not just to entertain but to coach and teach you and educate you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. we've got two kinds of companies in the stock market right now. the kind that can do no right, and the kind that can do no wrong. ♪ hallelujah each day since this market changed its coloration from bull to bear, like today where the dow sank 138 points, s&p tumbled 1.43%, and the nasdaq got clubbed, down 1.84%. >> the house of pain. >> there's a lot more stocks that can do no right than there are that can do no wrong. so what qualifies as a company that can do no wrong in this environment? a couple of things. first, a company makes someth

by the way, this is a topic that jim cramer tackled more than a year ago back in january 2012 with hisnce on "the good wife." mr. cramer, do you consider bit coin a currency? >> no, i don't. there are none of the characteristics associated with coins and currency. >> in what way? >> there are no central banks to regulate, it's digital and fun s functions purely peer to peer. >> that was more than a year ago? >> that was serious acting on your part because you kept yourself so level. >> at the time i have to tell you was blinded by julianna -- >> i was blinded by the lights. >> she is very lovely. >> she's brilliant and lovely. these guys are great. let me just say that the winkle vie that looks like a corner of the bit coin market. i got the script and i said what the heck is bit coin? >> $11 million world of bit coin? they're tall guys, green-panted guys and great guys. i've met them in the social setting and they are great guys and they're pioneers. facebook, as some would say, they've taken some of the proceeds and rolled them in and there is a bar -- there say bar in the city that

tweet cramer, #madtweets. send jim an e-mail to "mad money"@cnbc.com. or give us a call. 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney@cnbc.com. revolutionizing an industry can be a tough act to follow, but at xerox we've embraced a new role. working behind the scenes to provide companies with services... like helping hr departments manage benefits and pensions for over 11 million employees. reducing document costs by up to 30%... and processing $421 billion dollars in accounts payables each year. helping thousands of companies simplify how work gets done. how's that for an encore? with xerox, you're ready for real busi. >>> just because the market had a fabulous day today doesn't mean you can afford to stop playing some defense with high-needing food stocks that can thrive, even when the global economy is in dire straits. take long-time cramer fave b & g foods, neglected brands from larger players, private equity firms, and bringing them back to it life. you might know b & g as pickles. b & g just reported last thursday and the company delivered an

i'm carl quintanilla and jim cramer and david faber.tonight at 7:15 eastern and the beginning of earnings season. alcoa after the bell tonight. europe's in action catching up to our rebound late friday, several green arrows also point out that former prime minister margaret thatcher has passed away at the age of 87. the nikkei, the highest close t and our road map begins with the markets poised ahead higher despite investors prepping for what's setting up to be a disappointing earnings season. >> general electric, ump approximating up its oil and gas business, provider lufkin industries for $3 billion. >> deutche says the airline sector is expected to take off expecting profits up 140% from a year ago. >> our own jim cramer on "meet the press" this weekend keeping about fed chair bernanke in the driver's seat. >> we'll kick it off with the markets as first quarter earnings season kicks off with alcoa. earnings outlook is fairly week. growth expect, compared to 6.2% last quarter is also an unusual high number of negative warnings. 107 ne

follow @jim cramer on twitter and if you have a question, tweet cramer at #madtweets. or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. ♪ ♪ >>> of course, our thoughts are with the victims and the families of the victims of today's horrible tragedy in boston. for this terrible incident we learned about an amazing deal. dishwork's takeover bid for sprint, a rival bid, and which rose on the news only closing up 84 cents or 13.5%. normally when a company takes a catchover bid i try to tell you the sell it, because the upside is there for the sell and we are not arbitragers. and remember, that they were trying to get a section of the company, but they have a high pocket, so they can now come in and turn this from a cable television to cable powerhouse like verizon or at&t, and what does the clever ceo of dishnet have up his sleeve? and what are they going to do to buy from clearwater they that don't have for their own? the man for the job is david faber, my favorite man from "squawk on the street" and this is one tough story. that is why when

i'm carl quintanilla with jim cramer and david faber live at the nyse. the report came out with virtually nothing positive to say. europe, as well, selling off as we had a crazy session in asia overnight, too. the nikkei with its own story and we'll get to that in a moment and we will start with jobs in the states. the economy just adding 88,000 jobs in march and below consensus of 200,000. the unemployment rate did tick .1% lower to 7.6, guys, the result of a labor participation rate. the lowest since '79. what do you think? >> look, this is just bad, okay? i'm a silver lining playbook kind of guy, i don't have one. >> yes, you are. >> i'm trying to put myself where we were in our heads three, four weeks ago thinking, we heard about sequester. we heard that this was going to be a paralysis and the people were going to get laid off. that put the fear into a lot of employers. i do think that this is on washington, now you can say some of it's europe and some of it's china, and that's why i blame this number? >> do you think this is a sequester effect? seq

i always said you were a bright guy. >> you know, the fact -- >> while i'm at it, jim cramer has beenis. that's what's been going on on that trade. >> i back you up. cramer certainly has. the staples have been wu one of the best performing sectors. it's just a matter if that starts to reverse itself, does that have a major impact here? >> potentially. it was interesting on wednesday when the market wobbled. then today. some of these stocks are really not holding up tremendously better than the market if they are at all. it kind of shows you people obviously chase some of the leaders in there. they're not acting as pure defense at the moment. maybe it's a concern. i actually see it more matter of this very rotational nature of the market. the one-day loss today makes all kinds of sense in its magnitude based on the jobs number today. not a good number, i don't think the distance between up 88,000 and what would have been considered an okay number is really all that wide. the market gets that. wait and see. internal correction is what's been going on. they're warnings, but i don't think

i'm jim cramer, and i will see you tomorrow! >>> good evening, everyone. i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." another record high for the dow and s&p, and yet there's still no love for this market rally. so what's it going to take for america and especially the mainstream media to at least pay attention to this great stock market wealth creation? and guess what? we have some stats on how much the market has soared just since the last time i pointed out that this is the no love rally, and actually it's a big number. i got it right one time in a way. anyway, the kpmg insider trading case gets more interesting by the hour. photo evidence of a shady looking payoff on a california side street. the question is can we trust any of the kpmg's audits of the public companies involved? and is the political chill in washington starting to thaw? well, i think it may on guns and perhaps immigration, but the republicans should stop a $1 trillion tax hike and keep the budget-cutting sequester in place. that is pro-growth. don't fall on that. i'm kudlow. we'll begin right now. ano

see. >>> we're back with the rountable and jim cramer is here.in washington talking about the numbers. up employment rate at 7.6%. we have the chart as well. much fewer than what we have seen. >> stunning, and a lot had to deal with fearmongering. peggy said fearmongering in chief. the president made everyone feel everything was going to shut down because of the sequester. a lot of the c ere orcs were scared. ben bernanke seemed to understand the hiring is coming back down. >> was is the sequester? >> yes, it was feared it would cause massive layoffs. what was the rhetoric of the white house? lo look, this is really big deed. everyone has to stop and consider how bad it is for the economy. they said, we have to hold back. >> what's happening with the consumer? we know that the housing market is doing better. we know the stock market is going gang busters. you look at those three things, what's holding back the animal spirit of the recovery? >> what we're worried about is the sense if we spend money on oil and real estate, these the big projktd, t

i'm jim cramer and i'll see you tomorrow! >>> good evening, everybody, i'm larry kudlow. this is t"the kudlow report." big news in washington today, looks like president obama is about to lose his major second term initiative with a failure to generate a gun control bill it. it looks dead in the water. his reelect honeymoon may be over. and now a mass stabbing incident in texas may weaken his hand further. >>> meanwhile, stocks keep melting higher. bill gross finds treasury bonds and blackrock which oversees $670 in bonds want the fed to slow down quantitative easing. and jcpenney may be a buyout candidate. let the games begin. >>> and really big, big news. some kind of pro-growth personal and business tax reform. okay, i would love to see it. and i must admit, i am skeptical. one leaning senator working on a bipartisan deal is about to make the case. "the kudlow report" begins right now. >>> first up, at least 14 people hurt in a stabbing spree at a texas community college today. this is president obama brought a planeful of family members of newtown shooting victims to

don't go anywhere, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer. world. >> you need to get in the game! they're going to go out of business and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing! >> i always like to say there is a bull market somewhere. "mad money." you can't afford to miss it! 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. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate and teach. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. sometimes in my old visitful days as a general assignment reporter for newspapers, you would get a story that was frankly too fabulous to check out. you didn't want to find anything wrong because

is one of you jim cramer? okay, stop it, stop it! - i didn't realize we were still airing that.ramer's been dead for six months. - look, i know i'm supposed to go with you to cerie's wedding this weekend, but i can't make it. - okay, i know you and i are in a period of detente right now because of my other-- - piece of tail? - i was going to say romantic entanglements, but you do not want to miss this wedding. it's going to be new york royalty. the astors, the rockefellers. the sbarros. - yes, i know, jack. you think i don't want to know what pizzarina sbarro is gonna be wearing? - then come. - we both know that is a bad idea. which is why i scheduled a conflict for this weekend i can't get out of. - what is it? - well, if you must know, i'm on dodecacil. the pill where you only get your period once a year. - ugh! we're so close to beating that thing completely. - ah, well, my time has come. i'm going to a spa. well, it's not really a spa. it's more of a fenced-in area in the adirondacks. - fine. i'll go alone. - and while i'm gone, do some thinking about us. - i promise you, th

coming up in the next hour, jim cramer down in philadelphia. we will assume he drove. on the campus of villanova for the back-to-school tour. don't move. mad money starting at the top of the hour. stick with us. ♪ [ laughter ] ♪ [ female announcer ] each one of us is our own boss. ♪ and no matter where you are in life, ask your financial professional how lincoln financial can help you take charge of your future. ♪ >> welcome back to fast money. i'm josh lipton. we are watching pfizer right now lower in the afterhours. here is the headline. an advisory committee recommending against green lining its new rheumatoid arthritis drug. down about 2.5%. >> trade if we can. that could be a blow for them. >> we have seen amgen and pfizer. this trade is very crowded here. >> they go flat when the market rallies and sells off. they take off. >> it's a key level. i have to say i agree with dan on this one. >> i can't remember who makes it. >> all right. on a serious note this is the most popular iphone in america. it is not just men driving up sales. women are being driven into it