she's hilary kramer, editor of gamechangerstocks.com. always nice to see you. up 17% so far this year for pfizer of why this one, why now? >> well, pfizer may be up this year, but let me tell you, this was a stock that was $48, it's only $20 now. there's all this value, tom, in pfizer. i've been buying pfizer recently, waiting for an 18-month to two-year play as the companies new c.e.o. starts to spin off some of these valuable assets, buried within pfizer, like the nutrition, consumer product. it's a great stock for any person to hold in their portfolio, regardless of your objectives, especially with this 3.9% dividend yesterday, you've got some growth, some value, you have some catalyst. you want to own pfizer. >> tom: you mentioned an 18 to 24 month time frame. what's the price target in that time frame? >> we could see $30 if we eventually add up the value of the spun oven it's the. so if you're an owner of pfizer shares you're going to receive new shares. but $30 could be the up side here. i'm telling you, this is a good one and this has been dead money fo

. >> it sounds like a roping, get an update from hilary kramer. always nice to see you. we've gotten a lot of e-mail and bloc traffic, horizon lines, hrz the ticker symbol t was january 5th that you liked this stock, looked at a dividend play t is down 80% since then. what do shareholder does? >> well, shareholders should sell because the auditors of horizon have said this may not be a going concern. in my case i will hold the share because they run a dollar. but is still a very disappointing situation and management really letdown shareholders in a significant way. >> tom: so are you still going to hold on even though you've lost what, 50 to 80%. >> i will, just in case and i want to see how this plays out. but for all intents and purposes this company has to restructure l go into bankruptcy. but they gave assurances in march in two different releases that horizon was able to bring down their debt load by 60%. the base payments that they have to make down to 20 million. so i want to see if there is any imagine thake can be pulled out of the hat. that doesn't change the

she's hilary kramer, editor of gamechangerstocks.com. hillary, you like microsoft and cisco, each have seen double digit drops from a year ago. begin with cisco. shares jumped today as we mentioned after the c.e.o. john chambers talked about how the company is not being aggressive enough. what mike's you like cisco? >> cisco is under valued on every metric that you look at. when you compare cisco, tom, to the rest of the market and the tech sector, it's incredibly undervalued. what you have is a company that has $28 billion in cash and now with john chambers the c.e.o. who i respect greatly has said is we have really let down ourselves and shareholders, we're going to get more aggressive and expand so cisco can afford to go and buy growth. plus, this is an important point, they are involved with the smart group, for example, they are building our lick trick grid so customers can talk to power station, and john chambers has said it a $20 billion market, it all about network communication, so cisco is not dead and it's not dead money. >> t

you were very involved with camp kramer in malibu. i was wondering if you could give us an update on what's happening with that effort and whether you continue to bring leadership to the young people in the community can. >> thank you very much. thank you for asking. we've been in existence since 1963 off and on, but, you know, as soon as the budget crunch hit, we were cut off. the l.a. city schools cut us off. so the very last conference we had was in october of 2008. so we're looking for funds now. we're sending out all kinds of solicitations. we hope to be able to start again because that conference is so effective. it's only a three-day conference at malibu, campus kramer in malibu. the fanciest jewish summer camp in southern california. it's only three days, friday, saturday and sunday, but so effective that they did a study, a five her year study of the e fact on the kids. 87% of the kids that go through it wind up not only going to college, but graduating from college. that's how effective it is. [applause] >> i'm going to have

ramirez, the man who started it off for chicago and finishing against bobbie kramer., game over and drive home safely. the second homer gifls the white sox -- gives the white sox the win. the rangers lost their best player. josh hamilton tagging up on a pop up and fracturing his arle with a head first slide. ill advised. he didn't want to go, but his third base coach said no one is covering the plate. the rangers mvp will miss six to eight weeks and he was out on the play. while the nfl owners and players continue their sparing in court during the lockout, the league is getting ready for the season. pre-season schedules was released. exact dates still not set, but the 49ers will kick off at some point against new orleans in the second week of august and then home against the raiders and texans and finishing up at san diego. the raiders open it up and all of this is assuming the lockout 1* lifted. >> what is the chance of that? is there any movement here? >> that much. it all depends on what the court rules and what the judge decides. it seems like she is leaning towar

and hilary kramer is our "street critique" guest. email your questions to "street critique" at nbr.com. >> tom: if you bank or shop online, you may have gotten an email warning your email address has been stolen. texas marketing firm epsilon manages customer email services for many name-brand companies. hackers breached its security and got a hold of email addresses for customers of j.p. morgan chase, barclays bank, target, walgreen, tivo, and others. epsilon says less than 2% of its clients were affected, but it doesn't say how many email addresses were taken. lee neubecker is c.e.o. of hacker investigations firm forensicon. he says the risk is when hackers send out scam emails that solicit passwords and account numbers. but there is an easy way to protect yourself. >> first and foremost, i'd encourage everyone from the list of companies that have had a password is not the same as any other passwords from the list of companies. that have had a security breach. >> tom: now, there are more ideas. >> tom: there are more ideas on how to

also tomorrow, hilary kramer is our "street critique" guest. email your questions to streetcritique@nbr.com. it's back to basics for cisco systems. the company is dumping some of its consumer operations, including its flip video camcorder line. as a result, 500 jobs will be cut and the firm will take a $300 million charge in its fiscal fourth quarter. cisco spent a lot of money to build a consumer brand, but it just hasn't worked out. last week, c.e.o. john chambers said the company would cut back in several areas to stay profitable. >> tom: on the road again. that's where business travelers are going this year thanks to an improving economy. the global business travel association says just over $60 billion was spent on work- related travel in the first three months of the year. and here's something to know if you're hitting the road: this year, the average business trip is expected to cost $551. >> susie: less than a week to go until your federal income taxes are due in uncle sam's hands. we're here to help with our series of last-minute tax t

and hilary kramer is our "street critique" guest. email your questions to streetcritique@nbr.com. when it comes to smart, educated americans, apparently women rule. new census numbers show more women than men are now finishing college, and more women than men hold advanced degrees. the gains are part of a trend that's decades long. but there are areas where the census figures show women still lag, like science, engineering and business. >> tom: the u.s. supreme court today heard arguments in a case over whether pharmacies can give drug companies details on what medicines doctors prescribe. it centers on a law in vermont. the state has banned the practice, called "data mining," because it says drug companies use the information as a covert marketing tool. drug companies say the law restricts commercial free speech. the high court is expected to decide the matter by late june. >> susie: when it comes to keeping audiences engaged online, the word on the web is "content is king." that content can come in the form of blogs, tweets, social networks or just plain old websites. for tonigh

>> susie: tom, one programming note-- with all the news on the fed and berkshire hathaway, hilary kramer won't be joining us for your "street critique" segment. >> tom: we hope to have her back next wednesday, susie. lots of news. let's take a look at tonight's "market focus." call it a fed-induced rally across stocks, silver and foreign currencies. let's start with stocks, and today's trade of the s&p 500. the index popped into positive territory with the release of the fed's open market committee statement around 12:30. the gains continued building through chairman bernanke's news conference. closing up with a fractional gain. here's the index since june 2008, before the collapse, and with today's small gain, it is at its highest level since the summer before the financial collapse. meantime, the russell 2000 index has broken out to a new all-time high. here's the past five years of the exchange-traded fund tracking the russell 2000. tonight's close takes it over its 2007 high. for the dow industrials today, general electric led the index up 2.7%, and volume was heavier than usual as g

obama gain the upper hand yesterday but offer his take as political strategist and author robert kramer robert welcome good to be here great to have you here with us did president obama accomplish yesterday what he needed to do to take control of the budget debate the larger frame of that debate i think he actually sees the political high ground yesterday is much as anything by transforming the debate from a discussion of dollars in kind of green eyeshade questions and making it a question of values or contrast the battle of values between the progressive values that really are at the center of america's population's beliefs and don't want to end the kind of radical conservative values that are more characteristic of the gilded age that have dominated a lot of american politics for was never yours. and when you get down to it if we if we talk about whether we're all in this together all of us alone whether we talk when we talk about do we continue to have hope we can have a better society in the future and give our kids a better chance were we going to resign ourselves to living with le

we certainly do o ted kramer a significant amount of debt and gratitude. i would also like to thank president obama and the administration. unfortunately the president couldn't be here today. that was a joke. and secretary shoe. in particular the commitment the administration of the future of electric transportation. the president's campaign was to commit to electric vehicle and modernize the overall electric structure. we call that the smart grid. i call it modernization. a lot of that was brought about through the stimulus package. $5 million was put inside for electric transportation, research development and infrastructure deployment. that has added in my opinion a significant foundation for us to go forward. the president has a firm commitment. if you look at the dollars that were put aside, $2.4 billion to build plug in electric vehicle factories in california, delaware and tennessee. $2 billion of matching funds for battery and drivetrain and component factories. $400 million in matching funding for large-scale deployment of plug in electric vehicle

not just for me but also for kramer and a lot of other shows. he had a thirst for knowledge.e always wanted to know where were the best places to go eat, wear to travel. i got that from him, i think. >> what did your mom do? >> she was a fashion designer. she designed sportswear until i was born and then my parents started a business. they thought that working for themselves was going to be the best way to help their family along. they had a number of businesses. one was a drug store in queens. i remember growing up and -- the common theme was that no matter what business they had, me, my older sister and younger brother were all supposed to work on the weekends at whatever business it was. i was young when they had the drug store. i had an older sister at the time, but my dad would divide up the tasks to be aged program. -- h appropriate. my sister would have to take off and white down all of the high shelves and i would be in charge of the lower shelves. that is the ethic that we had. later on they closed the drug store and started a furniture, custom upholstery and drapery

you know, from richard kramer's monumental book "what it takes," that 1200-page history of the '88 campaign which is -- now, that you really have to like politics, but it's so spectacular a book. and reading a biography of warren beatty, he got to meet gary hart when hart was running the mcgovern campaign and didn't want to be a celebrity. i mean, he helped raise money for him by organizing concerts and stuff, but he was an adviser, and he had some chops. and in real life in '84 hart was listening to beatty. and as we all know, the '88 campaign never happened because of donna rice. so, yeah. you know, nothing -- i may be wrong about some of this stuff, i'm perfectly prepared to believe this. yeah, i really am. but nothing in this book that i am asserting is without some foundation where you can -- and mcgovern, in fact, came in and said warren payty was a very helpful -- beatty was a very helpful adviser, not just a star who got a crowd. >> host: in terms of what? in terms of pr? messaging? >> guest: messaging, yeah. >> host: give a sense of where that really happened. >> guest: in detail?

. >> guest: in the numerous places i drew this from, you know, from richard kramer warren batey monumental book "what it takes," the '88 campaign which is -- for that you have to really like politics but it's a spectacular book -- and reading a biography of warren batey, he got to me to gary hart when he was running the mcgovern campaign and didn't want to be a celebrity. he helped raise money for him by organizing concerts and stuff, but he had -- he was an advisor and he had some shops. and in real life and 84, gary hart was listening to warren batey, and as we all know, the eda campaign never happened because of donald rice. so yeah, nothing -- i may be wrong about some of this stuff.< but nothing in this book that i$ am asserting is without some foundation, and mcgovern in fact said warren batey was a very helpful at pfizer, not just a star who got his route. >> host: in terms of what? messaging? give a sense of where that really happened. >> guest: in detail, i just know that warren batey was in the room when they were talking about things like the nature of mcgovern warren batey feat

you know, richard kramer's monument to book, what it takes, a 1200 page history of the 88 campaign. for that you really have to like teletext but it is so spectacular a book. and reading a biography of warren beatty. he got to meet gary hart went hart was running for the mcgovern campaign and didn't want to be celebrity. he helped raise money for him by organizing concerts and stuff but he was -- he was an adviser and he had some chops. in real life, and 84, hart was listening to beaty and as we all know the 88 campaign never happened because of rice. so yeah, i mean, i may be wrong about some of the stuff. i'm perfectly prepared to believe this. yeah, i really am but nothing in this book that i'm asserting is without some#0 foundation, that mcgovern in fact and warren beatty was a very helpful adviser. not just a star. >> host: in terms of what? in terms of messaging? >> guest: messaging, yeah. >> host: give a sense of where that really happened. >> guest: in detail? i just know that beaty was in the room when they were talking about things like the nature of mcgovern's message, wh

ann kramer is author of the book. is it okay to cry at work? >> i think it is.ife that warrants attention. >> here's the statistic. women under 45 are ten times more likely to cry at work than men over the age of 45. >> that's right. we found it in our survey. the point is the older you bet get, the better you get at emotion regulation. women are hard-wired to cry in a way that men are not which is another piece of the statistic. >> tear ducts ready to let the water works go. >> our tear ducts are different! >> give me the crib notes on this. >> i was working at nickelodeon as a senior vice president and the chairman called me after i had done a gigantic deal with sony music to chastise me that the stock price didn't move. it came out of left field. >> exploded, screamed at you on the phone. never said good-bye, hung up. there were people in the room that didn't hear the call but knew something was going wrong. what caused the waterworks? his anger or the embarrassment? >> the shock and my responsive anger. often when women end up crying at work what they really