send him an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc or call 1-800-cnbc. . @jimcramer. send him an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc or call. >>> wherever i go people want to know if it is safe to buy stock of walmart. figure has to have big yield sooner or later. n does the it have to turn. i think the yield could get bigger not from the way you like, that's because i think walmart's stock could go lower. 3.4% yield doesn't enough protection even when dividends are safe and covered the way walmart is. why? for many reasons. last year they had free shipping if you spent over $50. which i thought was a mistake given their lower income demographic. unh unher unheralded turn around based on change in the stores, boy do they look good, coupled with international offers. you would be surprised how much private labels versus nationally branded stuff. target like costco, cheaper brand names. walmart's order on line pick up in the store strategy, costco has more room to encroach on walmart's turf. i think they are taking walmart shoppers. plus costco is a cost advantage from kirkland bra

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call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> yes it is indeed true that the great stock market crashes did happen in october, 1929, the great depression kick off and 1987 debacle. and sure we saw some real uglyness in the october leading up to the great recession. from after the stocks closed today can we please remember this month can be bullish with dow gaining 1,371 points best in four years. and s&p falling nasdaq sinking as well. profile week ahead of us and fed agree to keep rates low this paftd week let's go to the calendar. monday we get results from bluest of blue chips, visa and estee lauder. we know this market is giving you some bizarre buying opportunities likes the selling with starbucks last night. if my conviction about this quarter has only gone up since master card resulted master results earlier this week while american express once again gave a hideous number earlier this month. estee lauder doesn't strike me as a company is that will screw up again. we also have ism american manufact

.arenthood the videos that supposedly were edited, there is a recent video that came off from cnn or cnbc or something that have this guy by the name of david delaney who was from a pro-life group, the one that supposedly edited the came forth outt they were showing stillborn child that was going to. out ofre using that as werext saying they butchering the babies. i think the republicans are jumping the gun without getting the facts. lot.do this a it is sad for the country because it is wasting taxpayers dollars trying to overhaul different agencies and the that. i just wanted your take on that and if you are familiar with the hoax on the videos? guest: i will answer in two ways. first of all, the videos were heavily edited and misleading. they took out all sorts of statements that planned parenthood said they do not profit on the sales and they do not make money. none was included. we asked for the entire robert you footage and that -- for the entire video source and it has not provided. carly fiorina has been making these statements about seeing the baby that was aborted and how parts a

and it will be interesting to see if cnbc blinks or not. >> cnbc of course our sister network. they say they never intended to do three hours. so we'll see how this is ultimately resolved. also you mentioned candidate books. we have a special "all in" special book project we're working on, someone reading all the candidate books. it's going to be fun. betsy woodruff, matt welch, thank you. that's all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> you have a nice group of people you work with, chris. who did you sentence an your staff to reading all those books? >> no, we brought in an outside ringer for this. stay tuned. >> somebody's either been really bad or you better have outsourced that. well done, my friend. and thanks to you at home as well for joining us this half hour. we have to start tonight actually by correcting the record. >> i know how to get legislation passed through congress because i did it as a senator. i know how to turn around a state because i did it as governor of rhode island. but what i'm most proud of is that in

and it will be interesting to see if cnbc blinks or not. >> cnbc of course our sister network.ey never intended to do three hours. so we'll see how this is ultimately resolved. also you mentioned candidate books. we have a special "all in" special book project we're working on, someone reading all the candidate books. it's going to be fun. betsy woodruff, matt welch, thank you. that's all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> you have a nice group of people you work with, chris. who did you sentence an your staff to reading all those books? >> no, we brought in an outside ringer for this. stay tuned. >> somebody's either been really bad or you better have outsourced that. well done, my friend. and thanks to you at home as well for joining us this half hour. we have to start tonight actually by correcting the record. >> i know how to get legislation passed through congress because i did it as a senator. i know how to turn around a state because i did it as

and it will be interesting to see if cnbc blinks or not. >> cnbc of course our sister network.never intended to do three hours. so we'll see how this is ultimately resolved. also you mentioned candidate books. we have a special "all in" special book project we're working on, someone reading all the candidate books. it's going to be fun. betsy woodruff, matt welch, thank you. that's all for this evening. "the rachel maddow show" starts right now. good evening, rachel. >> you have a nice group of

get in touch with us on e-mail or twitter @cnbc. do you listen for customer reviews, personal experiences or the critical acclaim that products and stuff get. is that something you pay attention to? >> i do. i'm actually quite shocked that people get paid for the reviews. >> you mean like traditional -- you mean consumers or traditional critics? >> there are review sites that get paid to post reviews. to me that's a little disappointing. how can you trust their opinion? you know, that's what all trip advisor is based on, right? the opinions of your fellow travelers. if that's being paid for that would be a little disturbing. >> yeah, i can agree with that. i think crucial to get down the sort of counter fit. >> you don't care what other people think? >> no, i think you might do it if it's expert opinion. i think generic people, this was great, this was bad. it's always a mix. >> i take the aggregate and look at the percentages. if 80% think this hotel's great, there must be something to it. >> well, i usually just go with my own expe

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call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me #jimcramer. what if the federal reserve is on hold until the rest of the year and we can curtail the endless jabbering for a rate hike? what if oil is back? what if things are getting better in china? what if the issues with volkswagen can be contained? these questions explain how the market's advance can continue. roaring 314 points. nasdaq climbing 1.56%. we've got a trend going here. we've got to talk about it. all of these what-ifs would have been ridiculous to discuss a week ago. suddenly good news is busting out all over and we can't not talk about it. the facts are changing pretty rapidly. a few weeks ago the fed was on track to tighten. lo and behold they did get in the way with that very weak employment number on friday. that might have been a shocker to those who kept talking about the need for the fed to raise rates. now, it's no surprise to anyone who has been listening to our companies have to say. they're being slaughtered by the superfreaking strong dollar including dupont, in part

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. there is too much belief, including this one the dow sinking. nasdaq is advancing its theory and it has to do with change. change nobody can believe is, for example, i go and talk about stocks, you know, i talk about stocks witpeople. they ask me to what look at? why don't you look at mcdonald's? check out mcdonald's in europe, they check out my face. they're pressing me. you know what they say? i always love the take, question, fries, big mac is delicious. i love their smoking coffee. you can't beat the egg mcmuffin. we are in a health society. no doubt. we also live in a guilty pleasure, mcdonald's has guilty pleasure written on it. i think cnbc knows that, they know how to somehow get back to the basics of quick service and a value meal that tastes good, throw in chicken and biscuits, you will do great. burger king is doing great, why not? i wouldn't confuse domino's and call kfc fresh and organic? you know what i mean? so why the heck can't mcdonald's throw itself around, too? it'

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> yes it is indeed true that the great stock market crashes did happen in october, 1929, the great depression kick off and 1987 debacle. and sure we saw some real uglyness in the october leading up to the great recession. from after the stocks closed today can we please remember this month can be bullish with dow gaining 1,371 points best in four years. and s&p falling nasdaq sinking as well. now with one more week of high agree to keep rates low this paftd week let's go to the calendar. monday we get results from bluest of blue chips, visa and estee lauder. we know this market is giving you some bizarre buying opportunities likes the selling with starbucks last night. if my conviction about this quarter has only gone up since master card resulted master

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me #jimcramer. the recent rally? it's been go to behold. everything the bulls were afraid of, the china collapse, the brazilian debacle, has been resolved and we're now free to buy, buy, buy! with the dow gaining 32 appointmenpoints, it was the dow's sixth straight day in the black. that's the strongest streak since february. too good to be true? there are some things that are nettlesome that we need to vet them right at the autoptop. let's talk about debt ceilings and government shutdowns. with the demise of the republican speaker vote comes the prospect of a government shutdown. as early as monday you will start hearing about the possibility of a shutdown, an unmitigated negative for all stocks. as i say in "get rich carefully," there's a cycle that occurs in these political fiascos. the moment people start talking about them, we begin to worry about disruption in washington that always spills over to wall street. let's keep our eyes and ears open so we can tone down the bullishness if we start hearing this chatter. here's the drill we've

call me at 800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. sometimes you have to follow the short sellers to figure out how we can have tremendous gains like we had today. ♪ hallelujah >> we know there are gigantic bets made against stocks at all times. when the bets work, they work big. but when they fail, the failure is spectacular. [ applause ] and the bulls trample those who try to profit from declines in stocks. the herd was thundering today all right with the dow roaring 321 points, the s&p pole vaulting 1.66% and the nasdaq screaming higher 1.65% n. the last 24 hours we have witnessed some of the greatest short gains i have seen as well as downright disastrous bets against companies that manage to produce h herculeanly fabulous results. today it did so in breathtaking fashion. before the winners and the losers let me say unlike almost any other time i can recall it's the action of the panicked short sellers that are in charge here. they are controlling the prices you see. they are the ones who are moving stocks in either direction. sur

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. can you top this? that's the game i feel like we're playing now, after another dramatic week that cheered investors. dow gained, nasdaq rocketedstra much alphabet and amazon. not to mention microsoft. that's four straight week in the black for the averages. i find that amazing. with the global economy obviously slowing, this market is taking up the big industrials and the tech stocks and throwing away the witness-treasured healthcare names, at least until today, where they tried to rebound. industrial and tech have been weighed down by the short dollars. tell that to the ceos of microsoft and alphabet, which is of course google, and amazon, who stopped the shorts last night. down there giving them the business with magnificent earnings and fabulous conference calls. more on that later. that doesn't mean my thesis goes away. today healthcare may have escaped from the bears' den. but now retail is being mauled. footwear star sketchers fell short of estimates, something we'll talk about later with the com

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me #jimcramer. when something happens that isn't supposed to happen, there are big repercussions for the stock market. there have been unexpected positives that are forcing big institutional investors off the sidelines even if the average didn't do much today, dow gaining 47 points, s&p inch up, nasdaq advancing. people didn't see what i'm about to talk about coming. and it's really changing the landscape. first, i don't know many who look back at the last week and august and thought we saw a surge in activity in the use. but if you look, you'll see something uncanny among all the charts of the industrials and all tech stocks. you'll see a bottom. that's right. those stocks, which have been pretty much in free fall for most of the summer if not the spring, started their pivot right then, at the end of august. i've been over and over that period, trying to figure what the heck changed the economy to turned those stocks around. the answer: not much at all. if anything, we caught another leg of delegal

when she goes on cnn or cnbc or anyplace, she goes to another audience. she was relaxed, funny.ght, she was trying to show her personal side. she had a pretty good free pass from stephen colbert. that was the next best thing rolling that get-to-know-me video from the convention. so these candidates know all these different media and use them and play to each one's audience. >> so i know you both were watching hillary clinton last night, but there was this little thing called the world series. >> i was going back and forth. >> what happened about this four-minute blackout. the fox satellite truck went down? >> it was stunning to me. i said to someone else, this would never happen to us. we would rehearse this. we would know what to do. it took them forever to figure out to fix it and they went to the other feed. by the way, they never missed any of the commercials. >> talk about old school media, your satellite truck going down. >> you know, that happened to cnn 100,000 years ago, it's not supposed to happen anymore. it's a bad thing and a bad thing when you have millions and mil

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. there is too much belief, including this one the dow sinking. and it has to do with change. change nobody can believe is, for example, i go and talk about stocks, you know, i talk about stocks with people. they ask me to what look at? mcdonald's? check out mcdonald's in europe, they check out my face. they're pressing me. you know what they say? i always love the take, question, fries, big mac is delicious. i love their smoking coffee. you can't beat the egg mcmuffin. we are in a health society. no doubt. we also live in a guilty pleasure, mcdonald's has guilty pleasure written on it. i think cnbc knows that, they know how to somehow get back to the basics of quick service and a value meal that tastes good, throw in chicken and biscuits, you will do great. burger king is doing great, why not?

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jim cramer. close watchers of "mad money" know i'm not a chartist. but i do play one on tv weekly. show you technical patterns that can predict the next big move for stocks. given that i base all of my work on the fundamentals and not the shape of the charts the off the charts segment is antithetical to my anti-stock picking methods. but i know your feedback that you're interested in this analysis and it eat getting a lot of people involved at the right level say. not for a minute as i explain in "get rich carefully" where i devote a whole chapter to charting have i become a chartist myself. single out stocks to highlight and teach about after studying the fundamentals, the research, the annuals, the sectors and i overlay them on my broader world view at the moment. chartists can care less about this stuff. they often don't care what the company does. i wonder if they can do their jobs with the company's names blacked out. in fact, i am sure they could. some of them hate the distraction of knowin

we republican debate on cnbc wasn't democrats or each other-- it moderators. jack: now-- angry about the questions asked taking action. jack: the republican national committee is suspending a february debate with nbc news. nbc, r-n-c quote, "the questions were inaccurate or downright offensive." he specifically references the first one directed to donald trump if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign. jack: nbc was set to hold the gop debate on february 26th with both telemundo and the national review. priebus says the debate will continue... just without n-b-c. jack: there was a big budget bill passed on capitol hill today. the senate gave final approval to a large fiscal package that will prevent a u-s default next week and lower the risk of a government shutdown in december. the bill, already cleared by the house, now goes to president obama, who is expected to sign it. the budget increases federal spending on defense and domestic programs more than 80 billion dollars for the next two years. it also suspends the nation's debt limit

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. mean to tell me after all that chatter about the need to raise rates

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. get ready to set your alarm clock for 2:45 a.m. to get up with me. that's because earnings season starts next week. despite the propensity of everyone to believe that the only thing that matters is the fed, i have news for you. next week is earnings week and sales and earnings are individual companies are a lot more important than you think during this one period. yes. isolation give a number here, strong nike report, good home depot quarter. it can move a stock. they may not get in this market any pin action though. but 12 weeks a year the three weeks each quarter that i regard as official earnings seasons they can matter to the entire market. i want you to consider them the playoffs and all the rest are just regular season games. i have to give the macro data its due. just like the employment report. so on monday we get the nonmanufacturing number. this is the lone number left that i think is still strong. i say that to all the fed people who want rate hikes so badly. this is it. only one. so you better get this right. we're a se

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. you mean to tell me after all that chatter about the need to raise rates it wasn't even close? that's right. it turns out the federal reserve is pretty darn worried about faltering global growth and its impact on the u.s. when it met last month. it wasn't about to pull the trigger on a higher fed fund rate. and when we found out about how pragmatic the fed was about whether to raise rates or not, the september minutes were released after 2:00 today, you could almost here the collective sigh of relief. and then the rush to buy stocks! dow gaining 138 points. s&p jumping 0.88%. nasdaq is also climbing. for weeks now we have labored under the impression that the fed was ready to tighten on a moment's notice because it was sanguine about the economy. we thought they were happy about things. they were hardly sang wing. that's what they tell us they're about to tighten and the federal reserve is worried as most business people and investors were about a china led slowdown could bring down w

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> how do you price in disappointment? how does the market decide whether some companies' weak results have pin action? meaning their indicative of some broader trend and the whole sector has to be avoided. or maybe it's one off. that's what's confounding people today. the dow dropped 24 points. nasdaq down .42 points. we'll start out with a company that has a reputation for consistency. buffalo wild wings. this has been one of the best performers of the year. a month ago they were trading at 207. today it fell a staggering $32. more than 17% single session. what went wrong with buffalo wild wings? what didn't go wrong? same-store sales usually the key metric, showed a dramatic deceleration with franchise restaurants seeing a small increase. the quarter to date, they've only generated 2.8% increase in sales. analyses were expecting a 5.5% increase. guidance went from 13% to single digits. wage pressures resulted in an ugly set of numbers. so what does this weakness in buffalo wild wings portend for the rest of the group? w

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. >>> how do you price in disappointment? how does the market decide whether some companies' weak results have pin action? meaning their indicative of some broader trend and the whole sector has to be avoided. or maybe it's one off. that's what's confounding people today. the dow dropped 24 points. nasdaq down .42 points. we'll start out with a company at has a reputation for buffalo wild wings. this has been one of the best performers of the year. a month ago they were trading at 207. today it fell a staggering $32. more than 17% single session. what went wrong with buffalo wild wings? what didn't go wrong? same-store sales usually the key metric, showed a dmatic deceleration with franchise restaurants seeing a small increase. the quarter to date, they've only generated 2.8% increase in sales. analyses were expecting a 5.5% increase. guidance went from 13% to single digits. wage pressures resulted in an ugly set of numbers.

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. there is too much belief,

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. or tweet me @jimcramer. can you top this? that's the game i feel like we're playing now, after another dramatic week that cheered investors. dow gained, nasdaq rocketed into the stratosphere, thank you so much alphabet and amazon. not to mention microsoft. that's four straight week in the black for the averages. i find that amazing. with the global economy obviously slowing, this market is taking up the big industrials and the tech stocks and throwing away the witness-treasured healthcare names, at least until

call me at 1-800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. what do you do when there's no discernible economic growth either here or in the rest of the world? the answer, you reach for the stocks of companies with growth wherever you can find them. and that's what happened today with the dow roaring 217 points, s&p 1.4% and nasdaq flying up 1.82%. t think about the sequence of events just over the last couple weeks. first the fed says things aren't strong enough for them to raise rates, economy's not that good. secondly china putting up very weak numbers. third, major industrial us business has slowed down ha u n maybe dramatically. nonresidential surveys show a at pause in building. fifth, we hear major mineral mining like alcoa, six delta airlines just talked about developing wide body airplane. seventh, that powerful engine of job creation the oil and gas industry has gone almost full stop because of an epic glut in all things energy. a finally, eighth, the -- only yesterday we heard the world's largest retailer, walmart, sing the blues. w

cnbc was conducted in bad faith. why do you say that? those are fighting words. >> if you go through the letter and anyone can look at it at gop.com or anywhere else, i would imagine, on the internet. the truth is that we were betrayed and i think the candidates were betrayed by cnbc and we need to look out for the candidates in these future debates. but the truth is that what they promised was straight up finance, it's all spelled out you there in the letter. and that wasn't delivered. they prom missed that they would have open-ended question up front kind of like an pseudo opening statement about freedom, finance. something within the realm of cnbc's mission that didn't happen. instead it was about your greatest weakness. the questions were argumentative, petty, putdowns in many cases. purposefully pitting candidates against each other. everything that they promised not to do, everything from the beginning to the end. and so, look, cnbc is an arm of nbc. i'm not going to allow us to move forward until we communicate with the candidates. getting obviously some serious conversations of what it is that all of the candidates can agree on. and t

call me at 800-743-cnbc or tweet me @jimcramer. sometimes you have to follow the short sellers to figure out how we can have tremendous gains like we had today. hallelujah >> we know there are gigantic bets made against stocks at all times. when the bets work, they work big. but whenenhey fail, the failure is spectacular.. [ applause ] and the bulls trample those who try to profit from declines in stocks. the herd was thundering today all right with the dow roaring

jack: the number one attack target from wednesday night's republican debate on cnbc wasn't democrats or other republicans -- it was the moderators. jack: now-- republicans, angry about the questions asked wednesday, are taking action. jack: the republican national committee is changing the channel for its february debate. in a letter to nbc, the r-n-c says, quote, the questions were inaccurate or downright offensive." specifically referenced was the first question directed to donald trump, asking if he was running a comic book version of a presidential campaign. nbc was set to hold the gop debate on february 26th with both telemundo and the national review. the republican national committee says the debate will continue... just without n-b-c. jack: ten of the republicans running for president are around the metro this weekend for the state party's "growth and opportunity party" that's at the state fair grounds tomorrow. today, the iowa democratic party is speaking out about the large gathering of republicans. "they don't care about growth and opportunity for seniors or immigrant famlies

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. >> i know the next republican debate is a couple of weeks or so, a cnbc debate. rs. one start at 6:00 p.m., one at 8:00 p.m. if you're not at 3% or so nationally in the national polls, you'll go in the second tier. if they put you in the second tier, will you participate? >> we've already seen the numbers and we know we'll be in the first tier. >> they've already told you? >> there's only one or two polls left and we're averaging well above the cutoff. >> the cutoff is 3%. >> i think it's 3 and we're way above the cutoff. mathematically, i don't think there's a way we could go below 3. our poll numbers seem to be ticking up. and as more people see that i'm the only voice really for not going back to war in iraq on the republican side, there are republicans who don't think war should be the first resort and are somewhat reticent to go back to iraq. >> so you're in it at least for now, right? >> for the long haul. we've planned and organized in all 50 states. i wouldn't waste trying to get mooi message out. >> you don't think it's going to hurt getting re-elected? >