"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. "mad money." you can't to ford to miss it. rise and shine and thank you for waking with cnbc. i'm jim cramer and there is always a bull market somewhere. get up and make your best move. >> i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cram ee mxcramerica. call me. snoozing. that is what the market is doing. a little doze. it takes little gains after absorbing early morning losses. but it is all about the nap. s&p calling up 11. thank you apple. see the market has gotten tired here. and it rests at the opening for waking up from it's slumber and finishing perky after the bell. it needs to catch a couple of weeks. we keep hearing how valuations have are gotten stretched and then it crawls higher into the close. to me, i'm an old napper from all the way back. like you need me to wake you up in the morning with the cnbc alarm clock app ♪ hallelujah >> jp morgan announced that it was too rich and downgraded. jp said it lacks callous to go higher. the reason

and then the stock loses money but if you ask to be fair to jim cramer if you ask them these people felt they could hold on to the stock took a specialty was of course. cnbc is making money promoting it to get >> host: if you - jim cramer performances and check on the number of times there have been numerous things showing very unimpressive schemes. that matter as you point out in the book we might go opposite the advice of david ramsey or susan your men and a lot of people we feel fatal -- people reveal they are hurting us more than helping. why? >> guest: the past several years people feel like we have the economic prevalent of hurricane sandy. let the people are doing is here are some sandbags come here is an umbrella. do what we say and you will be fine. they are the ones selling of the umbrellas and the sandbags that say that you are going to be fine and. >> guest: she said she wouldn't go to the stock market herself and set up the money had navigator newsletter with a small mutual fund adviser getting amazing results allow easier to get great results when you are doing that. d

jim cramer. >> how are you? >> caller: happy, happy friday boo-yah all the way from smithtown, new york. >> i love smithtown. i don't know if you've been there. what's up? >> caller: well, jim, i have a large hold in synovus. >> i think it's coming back, snv, perhaps a great speculation. i want to see the quarter, i want to see t.a.r.p. repaid. and if they do, we are going to pull the trigger. >> buy, buy, buy! >> greg in california, greg? >> caller: tell me something. what is your take on irf? international -- >> if the semiconductor cycle is coming back, which everyone tells me it is, i would be a buyer. eric in florida, eric? >> caller: jim, how are you? >> real good. how about you? >> caller: very good. >> all right. why don't we play a stock thing. go ahead. >> caller: say again. >> what stock do you have? >> caller: aflac. >> aflac is high, it's not expensive. i do prefer aig if i'm going to be insurance, i want to be with bob, i think he gives you the most upside. and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the co

i'm jim cramer and there is always a bull market somewhere. it's go time. get up and make your best move. >> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. other people want to make friends. call me. snoozing. that is what the market is doing. a little doze. it takes little gains after absorbing some early morning losses. but it is all about the nap. dow inching up. s&p crawling up .11. nasdaq backsliding. thank you apple. see the market has gotten tired here. and it rests at the opening for waking up from its slumber and finishing perky after the bell. it needs to catch a couple of winks. we keep hearing how valuations have gotten stretched, but then it crawls higher into the close. to me, i'm an old napper from way back. exactly what this market needs, like you need me to wake you up in the morning with the cnbc alarm clock app. ♪ hallelujah jp morgan announced that american express was too rich and was unceremoniously downgraded. jp said it lacks catalysts to go higher. the reason stretch valuations the lack of catalysts. and jp morgan

all right, next hour, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer. 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. just trying to save you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you but educate and teach. call me 1-800-743-cnbc. don't you just hate reality? boo! don't you hate it when you know the numbers are too high or the world is simply not yet in a place where you can be confident that things are okay? don't you hate that members of the federal reserve think that we have reached a great place so it is time to stop helping the econo economy. don't you hate that washington doesn't care what place that we are in at all. don't you hate that karma. >> house of pleasure. >> house of pain. >> down 55 points today. nasdaq declining 42.3%. you know i hate all of these

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>>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get into the game. >> he's 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." on my job is not to entertain, but to educate and coach. call me. 1-800-743-cnbc. >>> tonight's show is to help you americans avoid some of the most common money mistakes that some investors continue to make and recognize the misinformation when you see it. if you follow my rules, you should be able to recognize an opportunity when you see it and to manage to avoid losing money when you don't have to. no matter what the circumstances. including a collapsing euro or a slowing in china. or even skyrocketing oil prices. let's get down to business. here is the first one. i don't want you digging in your heels any more when you're wrong. in the immortal world john maynard cane, when the facts change, i change my mind. one of the easiest mistakes to make, and i know this because i've done it countless times, i refuse to change my

let's go to jim in florida, jim. >> dr. cramer i presume. anyhow, i got a problem now, bad disease and suddenly the stock has tripled in big volume. acadia pharmaceutical. >> parkinson's a bad disease. you want to buy buy buy. ross in new york. >> i wanted to know your thoughts about this stock i invested in. >> k2 interactive. >> come on, man. the whole group is bad. i don't want you in that. i think you should sell it. peter in arizona. >> what is going on? >> okay. citigroup is okay. cut i'm not going to rave about it. and that is the conclusion of the lightning round. >> coming up, packaging power. food, fashion, phones, whatever you consume usually comes in paper or plastic. tonight, jim is unveiling two names you probably never heard of, just ahead. ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the world moves... futures move first. learn futures from experienced pros with dedicated chats and daily live webinars. and trade with papermoney to test-drive the market. ♪ all on thinkorswim. fro

"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 he's nuts, they're nuts, they know nothing! i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere, and i -- "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, well, i'm just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertain, but i'm trying to educate and teach you. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. do we need to be worried when we see the market at five-year highs? is that scary? do we have to be concerned when we pick up the front page of the usa today and the headline reads "stocks reach for the records." analysts recent gains are rational exuberance. especially on a day where the averages kind of stalled out. dow edging down 14 points, s&p dipping .18%. thank you apple for actually going up. when we see these articles, how about the articles about our retail investors are back and the bears are in hibernation, like this one. thi

follow@jim cramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer _#mad tweets. send jim an e-mail to madmoney@cnbc.com. or give us a call at 11-800-743-cnbc. miss something in head to "mad money".cnbc.com. >>> here on "mad money," i'm always telling you it's okay to speculate. put some money in high risk/high reward situations. usually single digit stocks that will be the head of the market that they don't appreciate. i talked about the money that you could have made betting single digit stocks like sprint, clear wire, nokia, supervalu. they were all written off at one point or another, including me. at one point or another just -- just today lowly dog best buy rose $2 or 16.38% on better than expected sales and research in motion was up really huge. another dog left for dead. i don't want all these moves to give you a sense that speculation is somehow ease lots of single digit stocks can be dangerous. it's not enough to speculate. you have to speculate wisely. what dow mean by smart speculation? smart speculation it means being careful. considering the perspect

>>> 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 save you a little money. call me, 1-800-743-cnbc. this is a beautiful, forgiving market that keeps roaring higher. >> house of pleasure. >> the dow gained another 73 points. you know i think we are in the midst of another massive revaluation of stocks for people to realize things are better than we thought. however, we're still in the middle of earnings season. that means it's a dangerous time, a time when it's dangerous to shoot first and ask questions later that we have to go over a game plan that i think will allow you to navigate things. before you pull a trigger on the stock, you still have to do the homework. i also had to go through thism call. and it was mind boggling. with that in mind, you have to do it. here is

"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >> i'm jim cramer. welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. stearns are going to go out of business and he's nuts, they are 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 a little money. my job not just to entertain, put it in context, teach and educate. call me 1-800-743-cnbc. all right. sometimes you just have to don the old bear costume, put yourself in yogi's hat or even boo-boo's paws to understand this market. the dow roaring 85 points, and nasdaq climbing .59%, happy days here again. it's one of those days. see, we're always trying to understand the coloration of the market. but sometimes we literally can't do so unless we go to jelly stone national park and get all ersine about it. when you own a stock and something terrific happens but the stock goes down anyway. what goes through your mind? perhaps you say m

meantime, "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 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, trying to save you a little money here. my job's not just to entertain, but to educate, teach you how the market works. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. the script right now says the companies are supposed to be performing horribly. we're supposed to be geared for disappointment. which makes it so unfathomable that the averages rally today. dow gaining 62 points, s&p rising .27%, nasdaq climbing .45%. what do you do? i have to put myself in the mind of the market. what do you do when a gigantic fortune country you haven't heard of but with everything with testament -- what do you do when they say things are much better than expected? how do you spin that story negatively, dar

meantime, don't go anywhere because "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer. and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. 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. other people want to make friends, hey, i'm just trying to help you save a little money. my job is not just to entertain, but i'm trying to coach and teach you. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. just when you think the stock market can't keep rallying, when you think that stocks have gone up too far, too fast, the buyers, they come in with a vengeance today! ♪ hallelujah . dow climbed 82 points, closed the at a five year high. why did the stocks rally? why? sometimes it is pretty call cuable, simple, because the simplest driver on earth, china, reported a blowout export number showing the country's plans to reignite growth are, indeed, working and we believe in that. when that happens, buyers swarm in, they buy commodities, thinking how could they not rule now that china

"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 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, trying to save you a little money. my job is not just to entertain but to educate and put things in perspective. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. not everything in the market can be explained by cold hard facts. not everything is rational or even cut and dried or it can even be ascertained with close scrutiny. including today where the dow vaulted 67 points s&p advanced, nasdaq climbed .33%. the stocks of companies that basically have nothing good to say go up anyway. truly miserable quarter on friday. they rallied baa because there's a consensus with bankers keeping rates lower or taking them lower, the second half of 2013 will be better than the second half of 2012. and tha

well keep watching that. >> actually you mentioned jim cramer. we've got jim cramer. he is currently running out to the set. there he is. come on out, jim. >> before jim gets mic'd up, i want it push back on you a little bit buddy. >> sure. >> first, beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, it is in the eye of the shareholder. and risky stock valued and why are they so far off their lows and are they close to bankruptcy so it has outsized gains which are somewhat artificial. >> i don't disagree with you. it is just a matter of just remember it all has to go just right. >> price to perfection, as they say, jim. >> all right, chief. what are the price earnings a year ago for sherwin-williams? for costco? >> right. >> oh, you mean like -- yeah, sorry. yes of course you're right on that. >> i just want it raise the point that -- >> i'm not going to defend all ten any more. ka ching, ka ching. tractor supply. but some of these, i mean, sherwin-williams was absolutely underpriced. i'm in a biepd on some of these. if we were -- you have to wait for a pull back because they

. >>> i'm jim cramer. 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 just trying to help you make a little money. my job isn't just to entertain but to teach you. call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. the dow jones average is just a stone's throw from 14,000. headed to its all time high that we reached five years ago. the index which rallied 72 po t points nasdaq 52.2% is in rare territory for certain. yet the chatter it remains skeptical. as i've said many a time, i'm never going to criticize the scep tisism i employ. it is a quality that has made me a ton of money versus the complacency which has been a continual loser. it allows you to leave the table after a big run are. i'm sure that there are plenty of index fund

. >>> 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 just trying to save you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you but to teach and educate. call me. 1-800-743-cnbc. if things are actually better than we thought. that realization makes someone pay more for companies. and it makes us willing to do stuff. hence this market's amazing powers of levitation. however, we're still also in the middle of earnings season. only 30% of a lot of the earnings i follow are done and that means it's dangerous times. a time when it's going to be so dangerous to shoot first and ask questions later that we've got to go over a game plan that i think will allow you to navigate things. it's a game plan for next week and i'll remind you again that before i

you voted at jim cramer on twitter, and no it's time for him to decide. stick around to find out which one could be your winning team in 2013. all coming up on "mad money". >> don't miss a second of "mad money". follow@jim cramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer _#mad tweets. go to cnbc.com, or give us a call at 1-800-743-cnbc. miss something in head to "mad money".cnbc.com. living with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis means living with pain. it could also mean living with joint damage. help relieve the pain and stop the damage with humira, adalimumab. for many adults with moderate to severe ra, humira is clinically proven to help relieve pain and stop joint damage. so you can treat more than just the pain. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor sho

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and jim cramer. >> jim cramer is great. he's mad, though. mad about money. >> ah, okay. well, i'm going to get to the news, which is going to start in -- >> is this chris christie? >> no, we're doing that later. >> peter king. >> seriously? >> why aren't we starting there? >> i tried to bring it up several times yesterday, but apparently you need lawmakers ranting and just railing against congress in order to cover it. i was horrified yesterday. >> i thought chris christie gave -- >> now you're horrified because chris christie is horrified. great. >> quite -- >> we'll get there. but first, president obama has signed into law -- >> with bottle rockets and smoke bombs. >> and i want to hear from grover norquist, because this logic is fantastic. passed by congress that raises taxes for the higher earners. extends tax cuts for the middle class and unemployment benefits for many americans. the president reviewed a copy of the bill while vacationing in hawaii before directing it to be signed by autopen. that's the signature machine that presidents sometimes use to sign legisla

>> caller: good evening, jim cramer, this is jim in boca raton, florida. my question is about standard pacific. >> this is a very controversial recommendation i made a few years ago. the stock has ultimately gone up a great deal. they have a big home-building business, including the inland empire in california. listen to dan fulton on the show on friday knows that this area is very, very hot. i think standard pacific hit a high today and came back, probably chase down to seven and then you buy it. blake in michigan, blake. >> caller: jim, it's blake in ann arbor, how are you doing? >> what's going on? >> caller: that's what i'm talking about. i'm looking to get into a little bit of the housing industry. not sure how much i like the reits. i was looking at first american financial. >> it's good. you might want to look at realogy, nation star, but that one's fine too. compare all of them. it is up a lot from last year. let's go to peter in florida. peter? >> caller: how are you? we're about the same age and we grew up in the age of aquarius, and i'm calling

. >>> i'm jim cramer. welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. firms are going out of business and he's nuts! they're nuts! they know nothing! >> i always like it 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. my job is entertaining, coaching, educating so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. after today's not so hot action, dow dipping 21 points, s&p down .21%, nasdaq off .83% off worries the federal reserve may allow interest rates to rise because of a stronger economy, you got to ask whether the dow jones average in 2013, beyond that unsustainably fabulous first day of the year. despite yesterday's rally, you got to be a little suspicious, skeptical, critical, about how poorly the dow performed last year versus the s&p and nasdaq, finishing up a pathetic 7.26%. while the nasdaq climbed 15.9% and the s&p gained 13.4%. who are the culprits behind the dow's underperformance? who did well, though, in a futile attempt to save t

>>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game! >> funds 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. hi, 'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." other people want to make friends, just trying to make you a little money. my job is not just to entertrta but educate and coach. call me 1-800-743-cnbc. tonight's show is to help you avoid some of the most common and money-losing mistakes that investors continue to make. [ boos ] and recognizing misinformation when you see it. the best way to do this is with discipline. [ applause ] and tonight, i'm laying out these rules to help make money in what can be an incredibly bewildering, confusing and infuriating and certainly irritating market. if you follow my rules you should be able to recognize an opportunity when you see it. to manage to avoid losing money when you don't have no matter what the circumstances. including a collapsing euro or slowly, or skyrocketing

"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 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 save you a little money. my job is not just to entertain you but to educate. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. even on days like today where the fed didn't say anything we didn't already know, but people used it as an excuse, an excuse to take some profits. dow dipping 44 points, s&p sinking .39%. nasdaq declining .36%. you can feel the pain -- >> the house of pain. >> it's the pain of the bearish money managers being overridden by the -- you guessed it. and that's precisely why i don't expect this pullback to last too long. because we have a powerful force pushing this market higher. i'm talking about the attempts by money managers to keep up with the galloping averages and the h

people have told me over and over stories of investing based on a stock tip from jim cramer than it loses money but to be fair to him, if you ask them a lot of people thought they could hold the stock that is a specialty to get out. it is not a great fit but cnbc makes money promoting it. >> host: if you just type in jim cramer performance results there is numerous studies showing very unimpressive results. i a agree. a good way to make money to the opposite way but so we might go opposite the advice of gave ramsey or suzy norman? you say the sum total really they hurt us more than help us? >> guest: i'll lee say for the past several years we went to the economic equivalent of hurricane sandy phase say put up the views and banks, here is an umbrella do as i say you will be fined and they still use the umbrella and and the sandbag. says norman who has said she will not go to the stock market has say many navigator was a small mutual-fund adviser who was getting amazing results turns out because he had a typographical error and misstated return numbers of the index. it is a lot easier to ge

"mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. stearns are going to go out of business and he's nuts, they are 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 save you some money. my job is not just to educate, but i'm entertaining, coaching and teaching tonight. so call me 1-800-743-cnbc. does the market not understand the gravity of a u.s. government shutdown? does it not comprehend it's not merely the nation's credit rating that's at risk from the debt ceiling debacle? but the full faith and credit of the republic itself? how long can we shrug off this grand canyon plunge that's coming? as we did again with another benign day, dow tipped 29 points, and nasdaq advance advanced .22%. this is behavior. is the market actually smarter than you and i think? i'm starting to believe the latter and tonight i'm going to t

in the meantime, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> they are nuts. nuts! they know nothing. i always like to say you can't afford to miss it. i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money." welcome to cramerica. my job is not just to entertain. call me. 1-800-743-cnbc. what a difference a year makes. while the averages are ho-huming along, we have some just the opposite of 2012. you may not see it on individual days but every weekend i go over the charts. what i saw this weekend, it dazzled. if this time last year all we heard was talk about staying local. exposures to eafr seas markets, we were the world's beacon, the safest place to invest. china converged on a hard landing. china had no pulse. it seemed to be a hod bed of socialist. but us, we are the place to be. now it's the exact opposite. if a company's exposure overseas is moving up smartly. brazil. however, if a company is trapped in america, if its primary business is here, it trades horribly. [ buzzer ] what's going on? first we still have yet to see

"mad money" with jim cramer starts now. >>> i'm jim cramer, and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game. going 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 erica. other people want to make friends. i'm just trying to save you a limb mone little money. call me, 1-800-743-cnbc. sometimes, very rarely, but sometimes we get a metaphor that fits the stock market as strong as this one. even as today the averages, dow sinking 50 points, s&p sliding .26%, nasdaq inching down .01%. sometimes, sometimes there's an analogy so obvious it can explain how in the heck we can have one of the best januarys of all time with the dow up about 6%. >> the house of pleasure. >> giving you the greatest january since 1994, and the s&p rallying about 5%. >> all aboard! >> every january since 1997. the secret behind the market's success is right in front of you. and this is one of those times because this sunday's super bo

in the meantime, "mad money" with jim cramer starts right now. >>> i'm jim cramer and welcome to my world. >> you need to get in the game. >> funds are go going to go out of business, they're nuts. they know nothing! >> i always like to say there's a bull market somewhere. >> hey, i'm cramer. welcome to "mad money," welcome to cramerica. my job is not just to entertain, but to teach and to coach you. so call me at 1-800-743-cnbc. may 2013 be as good as 2012 for you in the stock market. that's what i found myself thinking all day, in spite of today's incredible action, best day in over a year of the. the dow soaring 108 points. the nasdaq rockets 3.07%, i feel like i'm surrounded by people who are already fretting about the next big bad thing. this time it's the debt ceiling fight. they're worried eem as it seems the market has a tremendous case of seller's remorse. they're scared. even as it seems those who fled the market year end are in their buying and buying the same stocks we sold. when we looked certain to plunge into the fiscal abyss. how else do you explain how we got the best fir

>> caller: hey, jim cramer, boo-yah from hell's kitchen. calling about gdi, as you i'm sure know the talks fell apart on 12/21, announcing going back into talks with some other previous offers last week. >> right. i wondered if you think this deal will get done. the stock is basically range bound ever since. >> you know what? halliburton and baker hughes are telling you things got better. although, last quarter things weren't that good in north america. i think you hold on to gardner denver. i think -- excuse me, i have a bad nosebleed. hopefully that doesn't happen. i think it's fine. larry in oregon, larry? >> caller: jim. good afternoon from way out west. >> well, how you doing? >> caller: pretty good. even though you took our football coach, we'll get over it. >> well, you know what? i hope you all share in the bounty there. what's going on? >> caller: follow some of the insider buying stuff and occasionally find something that intrigues me. and carl icahn's done a pretty good job doing this over the years and he's purchased several hun

i'm jim "mad money." i'm jim cramer. i will see you tomorrow. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." shocking .1% drop in gdp now has team obama blaming republicans for the fiscal cliff and the sequester spending cuts. but you know what? the private economy did well up 3.4%. it was the government economy that fell. i would like to see us finishing the spending cuts of the government. shrink the government more. grow the private economy by 5%. that is my vision. now there is more bad news for new jersey senator bob menendez as the fbi raids the offices of one of his close financial backers. will it present key evidence in the alleged prostitution scandal surrounding the senator. it's all unconfirmed but the potential legal fallout is huge. >>> israel takes no chances. the air force launches two air strikes in syria preventing the assad regime from transporting chemicals and weapons of mass destruction to hezbollah. if the red line is crossed israel will attack again. we cover it all. "the kudlow report" begins now. first up we learned tod

jim cramer is host of "mad money." good morning. >> good morning to you, matt. >> when you look at trends in the economy, numbers you're seeing, which ones jump out and tell you that things might be getting better or not? >> housing shortage. we're not building enough homes. homes are going up in value. that will be a crucial story for 2013. all year, what we're going to see, matt, is that those who buy homes now will be better than people buying them next year at this time. >> jobs, what do you see in terms of the jobs picture? >> we came in, literally, with a very strong tailwind from 2012. 2013 will be the year we start seeing tens of thousands of jobs created, but in odd places. manufacturing, oil and gas, construction. those are new areas. didn't have those last year. >> let's look at interest rates, what kind of challenges will ben bernanke face in trying to keep interest rates low? >> he will face the challenge of a lifetime. we may be looking at generational lows for mortgages. >> ben bernanke would be one pers

. >> caller: yes, boo-yah, jim cramer. >> boo-yah. >> caller: i have a question. what is meant by a reverse split stock? okay, that means if there's a million shares, you know, say they do 3-1, they make it to 300,000 shares, citigroup did one of these, if you have like, you know, 300 billion shares, divide it by 3, you get 100 billion, it does raise the price but it's a loser. let's go to tyler in florida, please >> caller: jim, a south florida boo-yah. >> i'll take that. i need to go there now. sunshine? >> caller: no, it's overcast. when you talk about the economy booting off, you talk about it in terms of consuming and not producing, it seems like. you need something to be produced before it's consumed so i'm wondering why in terms of a growing economy you talk about consumption instead of production. that's what it seems like to me. >> i do because in order to be able to raise prices, you need demand. if there is a shortage of supply, sure, that can mean something but not if there's no demand. if you have a product nobody likes, you warrant i raise the price,

by the way, don't miss jim cramer's "mad money" tonight. he got it right with the federal reserve. you saw how emotional and upset he was about the fed. as we look back, we all know cramer was right. he'll be on tonight 6:00 p.m. eastern with a lot more on that. >>> stay with us. will we avoid the debt ceiling cliff? house republicans will consider a plan to extend the debt limit deadline. why that may set up an entirely different kind of cliff. we'll take you live to washington and john haar woovmtd flagged this in my observation yesterday. should the eligibility age to social security be increased to 70 years old since americans are living a lot longer than they did when the social security program was first set up? stick around for a heated debate and the body of a million dollar lottery winner murdered by cyanide poisoning right after he won has been exhumed. the medical examiner is talking, and we'll have the very latest developments of what went on. stay with us. ♪ [ male announcer ] don't just reject convention. drown it out. introducing the all-new 2013 lexus ls f sport.

cramer told and task is now marketing that this is exactly how he made money when he managed to hedge on wall street by cherry picking trains in a manipulative way by being a hedge and market maker simultaneously that's not capitalism that's fraud well according to this story that interest free bets included an estimated profit of twenty four million euros for each one hundredth of a percentage point that the three month u.s. libel or increased compared with a one month u.s. dollar libel or according to the documents because of the vast size of the derivatives pool a lot of the general population doesn't have the anger about these massive crimes because they think it's one hundredth of a percentage of a libel or rate move that would have seen them making twenty four million euros profit but these sort of tiny moves with huge profits it just leaves the audience the population at large who should be pressuring the department of justice to do something about this they just think well i don't know about this well this is where paul krugman gets a completely wrong paul krugman. advocates o