Cramer Called Bear Stearns

Cramer Called Bear Stearns "Fine" Just A Week Ago

CNBC   |   March 17, 2008 11:18 AM



What a difference a week makes. On Tuesday, March 11, Jim Cramer assured "Mad Money" viewers that Bear Stearns was doing fine. Specifically, he remarked:

"Bear Stearns is fine... Bear Stearns is not in trouble. Don't be silly... don't move your money."

Watch the clip:


Cramer later tried to defend his position by calling into CNBC. As Gawker reports:


"Mad Money" host and bug-eyed madman Jim Cramer went on CNBC today to clarify his statements from last week about Bear Stearns, when he urged people not to move their money out of the firm. As we pointed out earlier in his defense, he was not referring to the company's stock, and his advice was actually perfectly sound. "Do you know what would happen on this show if I came out and said I want everyone to take their money out of X bank?" he ranted today. "Jim Cramer causes a run on X bank!" As it turns out, the run on the bank happened anyways.


 

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Cramer is a fake. Maybe now he will find a real job. Really he is becoming very boring

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:39 AM on 03/19/2008

Seems like a a lot of you come to believe that he dosent know his arsss from a hloe in the ground

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:42 PM on 03/18/2008

I don't watch him regularly, but a few weeks ago he predicted an imminent 2,000 point drop in the Dow.

I'd sooner take advice from Suze Orman.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:13 PM on 03/18/2008

Cramer is the same idiot who wanted the Fed to slash and burn interest rates. The US Dollar be damned.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 AM on 03/18/2008

I am more concerned about the return of my money than the return on my money. Mark Twain

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:03 AM on 03/18/2008

What Cramer actually said and how it is presented in the title of this post are completely different.

The email he was reading was quite specific. Someone who had an account with Bear Sterns and wanted to know if they should pull their money out of the account, likely either a savings or brokerage account. He only said that there was no reason to pull the money out of the account. This email was not, as presented a buy sell recommendation of the Bear Sterns stock.

What this really proves is that we must get someone who is literate on financial issues in the white house, whether it is related to the economy or the national debt and deficit.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:55 AM on 03/18/2008

Cramer is a liar and a fraud and this latest Bear Stearns incident proves it. He's a hopeless judge of character, and he's a hopeless stock picker. He needs to change his meds.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:55 AM on 03/18/2008

You have to wonder if Cramer sold his stock in Bear Stearns last week. I seem to remember someone else a few years back who kept saying that there was nothing to worry about in his company while selling all of his stock. I think that company was called Enron.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:10 AM on 03/18/2008

Kramer is an idiot. Period. While he was telling the public Stearns was fine a week ago Kramer was probably doing what all upper management Stearns officers were doing: selling their own shares at the fake propped up price. So Im sure Kramer didn't lose any money in Stearns. This is why main street doesn't trust wall street.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 AM on 03/18/2008

Cramer is entertaining, but Cramer can't beat an asset-allocated array of index funds.

BOO-YEAH!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 PM on 03/17/2008

test

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:38 PM on 03/17/2008

After listening to Cramer's defense it's comforting to know that he favors a non living entitiy 'x bank' over the interests of paying viewers who happen to be living human beings.

So who does he think his audience is?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:51 PM on 03/17/2008

Not fair, Bill. You're asking a greedy money grubber to put names and faces on actual people, and we both know that makes him uncomfortable. It's not about us, really. It's about them, their beliefs and what they need. You big silly - you really expect responsible, ethical behavior from Wall Street? Please.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:14 PM on 03/18/2008

THEY WERE SO FINE THEY TOOK HUGE STOCK OPTIONS AS BONUSES IN DECEMBER.

SEE THE INSIDER TRADING FOR BEARS AND STEARN IN DECEMBER. OVER $40 MILLION IN BONUSES.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:08 PM on 03/17/2008

Perhaps he was selling.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:02 PM on 03/17/2008

So what? Cramer is not know to be some intellectual giant to start with. If you're dumb enough to actually take his words as gospel, well, you deserve to be slapped.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 03/17/2008

all I can say, Abbie, is I wish you were still alive.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:04 AM on 03/18/2008

Tell me about it, it's hard to raise.....ah.....Cain with wings on.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:28 AM on 03/18/2008

something something else hmmm hmmm, got wiped I guess, ah huffpo?

Something about wing viagra--helps to keep you up, and how Tom Hayden doesn't return my messages when we need him most....that's it I guess.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:45 PM on 03/18/2008

Isn't there, like, wing viagra? But, you are right about reviving the revolution--each time Tom Hayden posts I am compelled to ask him,"Where are you now when the threat is so much greater?" He never answers, though.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 03/18/2008

He is a moron.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:34 PM on 03/17/2008

Waterboard Cramer!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:51 PM on 03/17/2008

Hundreds? Dang, Rule, you're funnier than I realized.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:29 PM on 03/17/2008

Patriot, you old dog, you should know by now that I'm not always "The Angry Man!" On the other hand for this new fan of mine who seems so attached with me that he's taken to following me around the blogophere, AmericanNation (why do these guys always sport a flag?) I might make an exception......nah. He's just small fry--who had a bad experience with a hooker!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:00 AM on 03/18/2008

Dear "Rule of Law",

That was an awesome rant you provide hours of laughter and entertainment to hundreds of my classmates, friends, and colleagues. We tried to post several times to get you to rant again but your benefactors at Huffington Post would not allow our entries to be posted.

Suffice it to say, that a consensus was reached that the best singular response was provided by that brilliant modern day American satirist, Mr. John Stewart of the Daily Show,"...so....let me understand this.....you are using the same basic argument.....as the people at N.A.M.B.L.A....and you are okay with this?....huh?......"[add eye roll]

Take care my friend until, we meet again. God Bless. And, thank you for the laughter.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 05:21 PM on 03/17/2008

You actually had to come here, of all places, to tell me that you shared my post with hundreds of people? All I can say is--Thank You. Now go find some more defenseless women to beat up on over on the spitzer sites. There's a good boy...you may leave now.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:02 AM on 03/18/2008

His job is to get the customers into a casino. What do you expect?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:26 PM on 03/17/2008

Cramer is part and parcel of the CNBC sales machine ...

The American financial industry is now largely insolvent, and everyone knows it ...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:48 PM on 03/17/2008

Somebody forgot to inform AN.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:26 PM on 03/17/2008

He has a learning disability--he's truth averse.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:12 AM on 03/18/2008

Kramer is like the rest of those Wall Street hustlers. He got his by commissions when his clients sold and when they bought - no matter what the market did. His show is just so much BS combined with sophomoric sounds and yelling.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 03/17/2008

Years ago a man who was retired from the company I worked at said a very wise thing to me about the market. He said "you could put 20 analysts in one room with all the data and information they needed to judge a company and you could put 20 monkeys in another room with darts and the names of stocks on the wall. The analysts would do their thing and the monkeys would throw their darts. In the end they would end up with about the same percent of winners and losers."

It's a jungle out there right now! Stay away from the guys in the monkey suits!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:06 PM on 03/17/2008

Hey, no less than the Wall Street Jounal literally tried the monkey and darts experiment.
Check out 'A Random Walk Down Wall Street" explains why they don't do better and 'beating the market' as a teachable repeatable skill is a Big Lie.
http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/0393330338/
ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205799689&sr=8-1

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:24 PM on 03/17/2008

These pundits need to go. They represent the Board, not the regular investor. School districts, pension funds, everybody has been slowly bleeding to death and now we have a huge gash.

I posted here last fall and last Spring that a depression is coming that will make the Great Depression seen for what it was: mild.

On the positive side - and if anyone knows there history, there always is on - we have a great opportunity to make everything local again. Relocalization as it's called, will enable each of our communities to become self-sufficient again. We will no longer be slaves to corporations who steal our community's wealth, and foul our air water and land in the process.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:43 PM on 03/17/2008

The only reason he is where he is, is because he has a big, loud mouth. I'd like to buy Cramer for what he's worth and sell him for what he thinks he's worth. I'd be rich beyond my dreams.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:24 PM on 03/17/2008

I have been a student of Mr. Cramer for many years, and through his work not simply in the private sector but more so his altruistic endeavors to inform and educate the American consumer on how to take control of their own financial matters - he has an unblemished record of being solely interested in the exercise of a principled free market economy. Mr. Cramer has absolutely nothing to gain from advancing Bear Sterns as a positive security when indeed he had information to the contrary, anyone who knows anything about Mr. Cramer knows that he has no qualms about who you are, how much you are worth, his only concern is the consumer and that proper, concise, and accurate information is provided to parties so that they can make an accurate investment decision. Frankly, in all likelyhood, just like the rest of the American public, the banking sector, the Federal reserve, the foreign markets - Mr. Cramer - was misled or misinformed about the status of Bear Sterns - but before anyone starts to assinate the character of a man who has given more freely to the American consumer than anyone on Wall Street (save Warren Buffet) - perhaps we should try to avoid a repeat of Bill Cristol poor standards of reporting - and allow Mr. Cramer to explain his position. Anyone can be misled, and anyone can make a mistake. And, it was not Mr. Cramer that took $100 million dollar bonuses for performance at Bear Sterns while it was going in the tank, and it was not Mr. Cramer who made the ludicrous suggestion to use taxpayers money to bailout the same individuals for their ineptitude and unethical business practices - this is not simply a financial matter - this should warrant a criminal investigation.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:58 PM on 03/17/2008

AN, how can you say Cramer was mislead...NOBODY was fooled by the BS financial situation, not even the "cheerleaders." The only people fooled were the uninformed being educated by the cheerleaders. Months ago, PLENTY of people knew how this "crisis" was going to play out, yet the esteemed Cramer was MISLED? Sorry, can't buy it.

Otherwise, I'll agree that a criminal investigation should be initiated. But nothing will come of it. Thousands were involved, and less than a handful will face any consequences at all.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:25 PM on 03/17/2008

An investigation of a shill called Cramer! Like he didn't see these things happening? And he is allowed a forum from which to lie to the American people? Then he is either an idiot or bought and paid for--in either case he is a useless waste of human skin and should be put to work in some factory where he can do as little damage as possible.

Yeah, and the Robber Barons were great ones for museums, colleges, the arts and letters, and anything else that would gild the mud from which they rose after they were done raping and pillaging to make the fortunes that they, then were so generous with. Hypocrisy--burying your sins with money!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:56 PM on 03/17/2008

If the insiders can baffle Cramer that easily, he's not as astute as he claims to be.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 03/17/2008

Dear AmericanNation: You forgot one very important thing - you didn't sign the Cramer tribute - let me do that for you. "VERY TRULY YOURS: JIM CRAMER"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:02 PM on 03/17/2008

Dear "Wildgorilla" and "smokeystover39",
Thank you for showing me that I could not post such a ridiculously over the top pack of lies without be called on it by atleast a few intelligent Americans. The mere idea that Mr. Cramer is anything more than an entertainer was wholly dispelled after an article which found that a monkey making random stock selections had a better percentage than Mr. Cramer who at his best is at 50% - a coin toss. Unfortunately, men with the ethics and skills of Warren Buffet come along onc