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
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What i want to do tonight, is trace the arc that brought me to mad money. 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. 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 mad money. My love of stocks started back in 4th grade. You see my dad would bring home the old philadelphia bulletin when he returned home from work every single night. Back then, the only thing i would change, i would have made it that i would have been a yankee fan. I was a curious kid. It has been a blessing and a curse of mine there was a solid chunk of the paper that seemed inpenetrable to me. They were the other tables. Different than the tables and box scores. They made no sense to me. Open, range, closed. What were these strange things and what did they matter . I asked my dad because i would hear him get mad. Buy buy buy when he would hear prices mentioned
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