i m jim cramer. and welcome to my world. you need to get in the game! goes out of business and he s nuts! he nuts! they know nothing. mad money you can t afford to miss it. hey, i m cramer. welcome to mad money and i m trying to help you save some money. my job is not just to educate. there are some things i have been keeping from you. it s not fair. tonight i m going to do something about it. i m going to tell you who i am and how i got here. not a am jim cramer, that plus an avatar and 140 characters sums up everyone these days. i want you to know more than that. what i want to do tonight, is trace the arc that brought me to mad money. not for some ego trip but to give you some lessons from the faces 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 or guidebook. i want to tell you how i became a good investor and how i continue to learn every day. and that is the goal of
there is always a bull market somewhere. i will see you tomorrow. [ticking] are you guys happy, glad that you decided to come to seed? both: yes. do you think you ll stay here till you graduate? both: yes. you re certain of that? both: yes. why are you so certain? cause i know this is where i want to be, and this is where my future is gonna start. [ticking] most of the men got here by committing violent crimes: assault, rape, and murder. it s not the type of place you d expect to walk into and find the inmates studying 18th-century european history. if you brought with you and i hope you did olympe de gouges declaration of the rights of woman and the female citizen. inmates in college programs are easier for the prison system to manage. they tend not to stir up trouble by fighting and arguing, although when we ran into these inmates in the prison yard, they were arguing. about rousseau and machiavelli. how do they reconcile each other, or do they?
record. and in corporate news, comcast is buying the rest of nbcuniversal from general election for $16.7 billion. it s wednesday, february 13, 2013. squawk box begins right now. good morning, everyone, welcome to squawk box on cnbc. i m becky quick along with joe kernen and andrew ross sorkin. we are following major stories. after yesterday s close on wall street, u.s. equity futures this morning, well, you see they are fight a little bit higher. they are fight a little bit higher. after gains yesterday, the dow up more than 45 points yesterday. our guest host is westwood capital s len bloom. the next hour, famed investor and billionaire real estate tycoon, sam zell. top-ranked money manager don yakman. his fund have seen annual returns of 10% over the last five years. we ll also talk about how business leaders and investors are reacting to president obama s state of the union address. among the topics high talked about last night, jobs and the economy. even mentio
hasn t been apple or intel or microsoft. maybe cisco is the one to take us to new highs. the leader today which was positive, amazon, comcast, our parent 100% now and facebook, so, you know, it s the new technologies that are leading the way here. facebook had a nice turnaround after they came out and said they sold apple and buying this one. a big move late in the day but the nasdaq has been positive all day and think that could be the new leader to take us to new highs. going well off the lows of the day, the dow down 38 points, the s&p and nasdaq positive. stand by for the very important cisco earnings on the second hour of the closing well with maria. see you tomorrow. and it is 4:00 on wall street. do you know where your money is? hi, everybody, welcome to the closing bell. i m maria bartiromo on the floor of the new york stock exchange. a mixed day for the market. the dow failing to hold on to 14,000 level with the decline of 36 points off the worst levels, ev
ultimately either be eliminated as they were in canada, and when they were eliminated in canada, everybody said, oh, my god, it s the end of the housing market, and it was hardly a blip. or it will be cut to deductions on the first $100,000 or something, so you re effectively protecting the middle class. thank you for this. yeah, sam, it has been a pleasure having you here today. my pleasure. we really appreciate hearing from you. sam zell has been our guest host for the last two hours. you re putting your money where your mouth is. it s all about rental properties. that s right. sam. thank you, appreciate it. that does it for us today. make sure you join us tomorrow. right now it s time for squawk on the street. good wednesday morning. welcome to squawk on the street. i m melissa lee, along with carl quintanilla and david faber. jim cramer is off this week. today we ve got treasury secretary nominee jack lew heading to capitol hill. let s check on where we