these guys these guys are dying to know who won the street fight. so, in a "fast money" first, tim won. >> whoo! >> that's what i'm talking about! >> going to disney world. all right. let's go around the horn. beakers. >> dollar general. >> micron long. >> pete najarian. >> play into the bakken shale. play into the idea they've got to move this energy. norfolk southern. this is cheap. it's going a lot higher. >> i'm melissa lee. thank you so much for watching. see you tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. for "squawk on the street," back at 5:00 with more "fast money." meantime don't go anywhere. "mad money" with the one and only jim cramer starts now. >> i'm jim >> 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 they're nuts! 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. i'm just trying to save you money. call me at 800-743-cnbc. it didn't kill us after all. turns out the cyprus mess was used as just one more buying opportunity for the voracious seekers. >> buy, buy, buy! >> of exposure to our stock markets. the drou dropping 62 points. the nasdaq slipping slipping merely .35% despite dire predictions last night about where we were heading and at one time we were up before profit taking at end of the day. hardly a rendezvous with deadly destiny. >> the disappointing news about cyprus and the run on the atm came over saturday and i decided while negative, no denying it, it wouldn't impact our market that much because we are now way past the days when europe converted over our market. sunday i went over to tef arian which i own with other guys in new jersey and see how breakfast was going and i happened to bump into stewart hoffman, the chief economist from pnc financial services group who was staying overnight at our joint, thanks to the innkeeper, her and her husband michael run a tight ship and i just carry out the bags. when i asked stewart what was he thinking about cyprus and the atm bank lines and the tax scheme where they essentially bang the depositors for money. they violated the sacrosanct compact, i told them that was meant to protect those deposits. stewart's all about common sense. he didn't think all of that much about the cyprus story. more importantly, he was hoping we wouldn't make too of it on this show because it would blow over since cyprus was a special case which couldn't have been extrapolated and maybe even rally a little. then i went home after having some breakfast and i set out to study the charts and more on this later and settled in for ncaa bracketology while watching the canes play the tar heels. i liked to stay focused on march madness i began to get bombarded by emails from bears worldwide -- [ shots fired ] brown bakers kodiak, even koalas, telling me, this is it, jim, this is the big da ca hunna that i was being way too glib about the confiscation scheme that would rock my world. i knew not to dismiss the darn cyprus situation. i bothered to argue back, silly me. first with the standard polite rebuttals that cyprus say dot on a map, best known for being a favorite island of churchill's as well as for its key role in russian money laundering. i protest that this moronic plan went off because the banking system say big joke anyway. ♪ >> and while, sure, the heavy handed way the regulators were getting involved seemed wrong to me, it wasn't evident this this method would spread violently to the rest of europe. yeah, they shouldn't be taxing these rip sort, just a hot money that came in from russia, and the whole thing is being handled as stupid as our own sequester is being done here, and i wasn't budging from the idea that this story wouldn't cost a major and lasting decline. i'm not that keen on many stocks at this moment and it remained in the camp that i'm willing to miss any upside from here because the markets moved way too far, too fast for my taste. it is too treacherous for me. even though i'm not that bullish and even as we sold more stock today and it's my charitable trust. it didn't matter. these guys wanted me to be overbearish and they just kept coming at me. let me give you the volley and tennis action here. let me tell you how the volley is played out. first, the bears what they say, they say -- what happens if there are runs on the poorly capitalized spanish banks? my return! that's what people said would happen last may when the banks were teetering and the money soon flowed right back. banco santander that everyone was so afraid of back then came out to be a tremendous buy. once the sanctity of the deposit is violated who knows what can happen? any account can be confiscated and it's no longer a worry about return on capital. it's about a run of capital! ♪ >> my return. don't be ridiculous. the cypriot banking systems rotten to the cora i place for the russians to hide money from the government. if these banks were in the united states they would have been seized a long time ago so any testament to the cluelessness and phony supervision of the brain dead european regulators that it ever got out of hand like this. service. we're in big trouble. who knows? it could happen here probably around the corner. and that's when i blew my top. first, our banks are the best regulated in the world despite what elizabeth warren and chief prosecutor -- i'm sorry, chief reporter gretchen morganson from the new york times might tell us. it's not going to happen here and while i think it's always right to worry about the italian banks because they're poorly capitalized, i'm not going to saber rattle and make you fearful of huntington bancorp or first horizon or j.p. morgan. love 40, i say. no, no, game! at that point it was turn to serve. i had no more patience to each and every bear and by my account there were a dozen of them, i ask what does the cyprus crisis have to do with the price to earnings multiple of bristol-myers? now, mind you, there's nothing, nothing at all that the intelligencia admires more than my bristol-myers card that i blade for so many years. as outrageous as the scheme in cyprus might be and it is outrageous because the average cypriot shouldn't be collateral damage, the average portfolio manager simply doesn't give a darn about it. he's hoping the market can come down so he can buy stocks like bristol-myers. good balance sheet and decent pipeline and nice yield and none of it will will be impacted by the long lines at the cypriot atm machine and that's why they want it. in fact, i bet that when some of these portfolio managers heard that there was a crisis in cyprus, they probably were worried about the dividend and the dividend of cyprus semiconductor and it's pretty steep. i wasn't done and the next stage, i question how well the negatives were doing this year. were they underperforming and were they behind the benchmark s&p 500. were they short? did they have too much cash and needed a price break to put the money, and the end of the quarter to show investors they weren't totally asleep at the wheel and so negative they didn't see anything good coming. were they wrong for the last 2,000, maybe 3,000 points? yeah, it got personal all right. i didn't want it to get personal. no, because then i couldn't each have time it figure out whether i should take a chance on gonzaga or a long slight like lasalle and i picked georgetown because our executive producer went there and nova, because as far as i'm concerned it's still 1985. i get up at 3:55 a.m., okay, bears i'm all hands on deck here and see what was on the tube. looking for long lines in atms in italy and maybe a little spain and go to google where they look down and see everything, but that's actually old stuff and i was getting turowed see the 3.5% declines that everyone told me had to happen. they were, like, spamming me with this thing. no, nothing. and then i came to work and went over to the floor of the exchange and nothing, no panic on the floor. although i did hear several commentators come on our air and say that this is it, this is the end, the end, my friend, the end of the banking system as we know it as if actually i didn't end four years ago and i was prepared to talk about how our markets are strong when squawk on the street started and the declines you're seeing won't cause us to go down 2% to 3% as my bearish pals told me would happen. but we didn't even get a big sell-off in europe and we gave it up near the bell and it was a garden variety give up and probably not dumb and nothing catastrophic like i'm supposed to have down my back. now, mind you, i come back and say the scypriot is stupid afte the same thing happened in iceland and ireland and i still have issues with this market and you'll hear it in a few minute, but it looks like the bears overplayed their hands or their paws. they were so desperate to get the market down that they would not let the facts of the little nation get their hands on the big, positive story. >> sure, sure. there's plenty wrong, but here's the bottom line. the cyprus crisis coming up to european crises that amounted to boys who repeatedly cried wolf couldn't get the crash today that so many of my, mailers need to justify their negative positions and their actual short positions. what can i say? i have an idea. they should go to pick the baskets of the national park and the pickins aren't like the hideously executed cyprus bailout and it would have let me have a nice, quiet sunday afternoon to fill out my brackets and the possibility. you heard it first of a louisville victory of the big dance. a you will right. allen in new york. allen? >> what's shaking jim? boo-yah from nyc. >> you're right across the river! i can see you. what's going on? >> as you probably know citigroup has upgraded verizon to a buy, and my question is verizon is trying to aquire the 45% of vodafone and vodafone pays a better dividend of 5.53%, versus verizon with the 4.29% any how would you play the acquisition? >> just be clear. >> citigroup in that piece and i was chatting with the deal guys because the deal in the street merged. everyone says this deal will happen. my friend david faber says there's a lot of chatter and where there's smoke there may be a little fire. it could be popcorn in the microwave. own vodafone at the fundamentals and i would prefer at&t here because if verizon deal doesn't happen, verizon goes back to 45. all right, the bears are overplayed at least for today. tomorrow say new bad day, right? cyprus couldn't stir up the panic that some people really needed and it doesn't mean i'm sounding the all clear. just the opposite, stick around. there's something else you need to keep an eye on. "mad money" is coming right back. the market may have ignored the shot from cyprus, but krarm could have found a bank sign that could be more dire than a mediterranean isle. find out how youio should prepare. later, cramer has a new take on an old family past time. new this week, he's taking a look at companies with the stranglehold on their industries that may give their stocks a boost. tonight jim's checking out the friendly skies to find out if it's time to take off. plus food fight. your local supermarket has turned into a battleground for organic food producers, but their struggle for shelf space could be your chance to cash in. cramer place checks two top names to find which could satisfy your portfolio? all coming up on "mad money." don't miss a second of "mad money." follow @jimcramer on twitter. have a question? tweet cramer #madtweets. send jim an email to m madmonmadmone madmoney @cnbc.com or give us a call at 800-743-cnbc. miss something? head to madmoney.cnbc.com. 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[ wind howling ] easier than actually going to the bank. mobile check deposit. easier banking. standard at citibank. >> i just spent the whole top of the show telling you why we didn't panic over cyprus, right? we didn't do that. >> no! >> you know what i didn't do? i didn't tell you to buy the whole market that's what. >> don't buy. don't buy. >> i'm sticking by my proposition that i can't join in the buying of most stocks up here and we did pick some small for the charitable trust and we ended up being net sellers of the day because i don't like to buy into parabolic markets. that's why we lowered our exposure to the trust. i'm not a chartist, each weekend i poured over these hand-delivered charts. i'm looking for anomalies, for opportunities. this comes from a career where i ignored the chart, but my partner in the trading desk -- she'll go through these things endlessly looking for breakouts and ooh, there's a breakdown, and then tell me to find out why. fundamentally, why could that stock be breaking out and why is that stock languishing and after she ordered me to get her one of the soft pretzels or paper plates and see when you can still eat a lot and run it off. it was time honored and she would pick out ten longs and ten shorts and so i can nail down a thesis and she would then go to work buying or shorting the stocks. she must have done something right because we compounded 25% annually while the s&p went 8% per year and it was worth some sword of methodology. those days are over and i still can't stay away from the charts and this weekend i didn't like what i saw. when karen and i work together there would be moments when she would say holy cow, although she wouldn't use the term cow. she would use a word that i only heard in eighth grade science class, the last science class i had, the chart his been parabell on parabolic. did i ever claim to work at the jet propulsion lab? what it meant is that stocks had started to go up in pretty much a very steep slope. this is a parabola. so steep that the angle is getting a little dangerous if you're up here, right? here it's still pretty good and you get there and it's a nice place to plunge, right? and you have to wait so that time would pass and it wouldn't be such a steep parabola. she wasn't saying we were going to crash at all. she wasn't saying the companies weren't any good. she was simply staying it leaves room forreror particularly when you're in the state-up portion of the parabola. it's plenty of them as this list of parabolic stocks that i wrote down shows. this is incredible. i know. i hadn't really had this many stocks in parabola motion and they've risen the highest and the hardest and the ones taking the cake are the insurers and the banks. some of the transports. those insurers and bank stocks were strong for much of the day. i can see karen saying that. what do all of those stocks have in common, jim in what could be driving the insurers and the banks into this incredible parabola, and i know what the answer is and that's why i'm not that positive. the answer is higher interest rates. yeah. i think interest rates are going higher. that's what the stocks are telling me because these are all companies that do better when rates go up. the insurers for the investment portfolios that begin to generate a much better return, and they make the money from jacking up the premiums and not only that, but a lot of the insurers have the investments in their portfolios and at one time seeming insolvent that are now coming back to life and the bank, i've been saying it over and over again that the banks are the place to be because they'll begin the long war, particularly commercial real estate and they will boost their earnings per share, and i also think that if i'm right that rates go higher and, well, regardless of what the fed tries to do, the banks will make more on that spread between what they pay as depositor and the rates that they get to charge borrowers and the yield curve will get better. the transports are going higher because business will get better. we have them for the whole s&p 500 and what the s&p will earn in aggregate and that's a true sign of improvement. >> we're having terrific retail sales, and i think we'll find that it's accelerating the oil and gas business that'sy creating more jobs. quite simply the courtry is doing better than many think and that's what the charts are saying and the charts that looked most dangerous and the most toppy as tara would look at you and finishing after finishing their parabolas coming down here. okay. they're the chars of the companies that do best in a recession. i'm trying to -- there we go. after you finish the parabola you kind of get a little weakness right there and the charts of the colgates and the cloroxes and the kelloggs and the kimberly-clarks. they look like they finished the parabola. mcdonald's, pepsico, proctor each j & j looks like they're finishing and the businesses look like they're getting strocker, because they will not have as good year over year comparisons as the bank, insurers or transports and please plus these consumer product companies are doing better overseas and the euro is being killed against the dollar meaning that their translation of euros into strong dollars, that's going to hurt their business and it's far worse than people are coming down. the numbers need to come down for the companies and i'm concerned if i see the strength in the economy and i see the stocks of the companies that benefit from high are rates benefit than the ones getting hurt, then the fed's got to see it, too, right? i think we've come a long way when the fed was clueless and ben bernanke knew nothing. here's the bottom line. the charts say higher rates are coming and they're coming faster than we realize because of a rising economy. that's not going to be slowed by cyprus in particular or europe or even china. that means you have to sell the consumer packaged goods and wait for the packaged to buy the insurers like the metlife. sure, the charts can be wrong, but not every single one of them. stay with cramer. coming up, game time. cramer's got a new take on an old favorite family pass time. all this week, he's taking a look at companies with a stranglehold on their industries that may give their stocks a boost. tonight jim's checking out the friendly sky to see if it's time to take off. believe it or not, you want to educate yourself about business you can learn a heck of a lot from monopoly, the fabulous board game that i used to win at almost all of the time as a kid mostly because my family didn't want to deal with me being a sore loser. confidentially, i did like to turn the board over and stomp out of the room in tears if i lost! >> wow! >> so i don't blame them for letting me win. you remember how monopoly works right? when someone landses on the place they owe you 25 smackers monopoly money, but -- oh, it's chinese money. it's probably worth a fortune, but if you own all four railroad sxsz if you have a monopoly on the rail business in this imaginary world and another guy lands on them, then you have to pay the guy $200. that's a fortune, right? that's a fortune. what the heck does this have to do with the real world or the real stock market? simple. it teaches us that as companies have more market share and less competition they can make their customers pay them a heck of a lot more money like the railroads. a monopoly is a wonderful business model. in reality they're either illegal or heavily regulated by the government and there's something close to monopoly and something similar that allows companies to jack up prices just like you can force people to pay more when you have all four railroads on the monopoly board. it's called oligopoly where a handful of companies control an entire industry. it's a concept we'll be talking about all week here on "mad money" because the