Cramer: "We're All Up Against Google/YouTube"

Cramer: "We're All Up Against Google/YouTube"

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's popular "Mad Money" program, brings the show to USC today in one of his periodic visits to college campuses.

The 52-year-old Cramer, a Harvard Law School graduate, former hedge fund manager and co-founder of financial news company TheStreet.com Inc., launched "Mad Money" in 2005. He has become infamous for the wild on-screen antics that accompany his advice on stocks to buy or dump. Despite the clowning, he shows an encyclopedic knowledge of individual companies and market history.

Although he has plenty of critics, Cramer -- who in the late 1970s was homeless for about nine months and lived out of his car in California -- has acquired an avid following among younger people. He met Thursday with a group of Times editors.

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