Tonight im going to tell you who i am and how i got here. No, not i am jim cramer cohost of mad money, squawk on the street, founder of the street. Com. You know what that plus an avatar and 140 characters sums up everyone these days. And i want you to know more than that. Although it did take me two years to learn avatar wasnt a movie and a hashtag wasnt a number sign. What i want to do tonight in an extremely special and personal show by my own wacky standards is trace the arc that brought me to mad money. Not for some autobiographical ego trip, i do that all the time, but to give us moneymaking lessons from the phases of my various careers and how you can profit from them. Remember, in the end, this is cramerica in short, i am going to give you the invest to cramer guide book, the skinny of how to be a good investor and how i continue to learn every day so i can continue to help you be better and better than ive ever been. That is the ultimate goal of mad money. Lets start real earl
Some of the players were doing just okay. Some were hot as pistols. Some were just duds. I said i wanted to figure out which were going to go higher, just like everybody else was going to find out. He said why dont you try . It seemed in my house the radio was always on until pop put the tv on for dinner. We always watched the news while eating. I hated it because most of the news was about the war, meaning the war in vietnam, and it seemed frightful and scary and very real life, even when i was 9 years old, my mom was worried that i might have to go to vietnam. Fortunately the war was winding down by the time i got my draft number, and it was a high one, so i was spared from conflict. Right after the world news, they always mentioned the Dow Jones Industrial average, and they either talked or showed the most active stocks, and then the ones that had done the best or the worst. National video was often on the worst list, i discovered, hence the anger. So what i did was write the names
Interesting. Okay. You tied it in to dell and jpmorgan and everything else. Excellent. Larry, thank you. My pleasure. Join us tomorrow. Squawk on the street begins right now. Good wednesday morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee with carl quintanilla, and jim cramer and david faber at the new york stock exchange. Stocks had a pretty nice day yesterday. The s p closed at fiveyear highs. We are looking to the down decide this morning. The dow looking to lose about 62 at the open. The picture in europe, a couple of downgrades for gdp forecasts from both the German Government and world bank. Italy is down by 1. 5 . Road map this morning starts off with the banks and earnings. Jpmorgan higher. Goldman sachs at 18month highs. Japan airlines grounding their entire dreamliner fleet. Dell shares falling this morning after david faber reports that a deal could be announced within two weeks, but at a price of 13. 50 or 14 a share, hes got the details. Rising food costs taking a
They do things for noneconomic reasons. Somebody said in europe, they dont care about theyre going to keep europe together. The u. S. , i think entitlement reform is serious. I think they have a couple weeks to work this out. Barry, thank you so much. Its been a pleasure talking to you today. Thank you. That does it for us today. Make sure you join us tomorrow. Right now its time for squawk on the street. Good morning. Welcome to squawk on the street. Im melissa lee, along with carl quintanilla, jim cramer and david faber at the New York Stock Exchange. The new home price reports were just released. S ps David Blitzer will join us to break these numbers down moments from now. Lets get a check on futures. And how we are setting up, this after the s p ended its eightday rally. It managed to hold above the 1,500 mark in yesterdays session. The dow looking to lose about nine. Confidence numbers are on tap at 10 00. Italian field auction, selling bills at the lowest yields since march 2010.
No, not i am jim cramer, host of mad money, squawk on the street. That pretty much sums up everyone these days. I want you to know more than that. Although it did take me to learn that an avatar wasnt a movie and that a hash tag wasnt a number sign. What i want to do tonight in an extremely personal show is trace the arc that brought nomad mad. Not for some auto biographical ego trip, i do that all the time, but to hear some money making lessons from the phases of my various careers and how you profit from them. In the end, this is cramerica in short, i am going to give you the invest to cramer guide book, and how i continue to learn every day so i can help you become better than ive ever been or ever will be. That is the goal of mad mone. Lets start real early. My love of stocks didnt begin after law school or even high school. My love of stocks started bag in fourth grade. My dad would bring home the old philadelphia bulletin. At that point, one of the largest newspapers in the count