Thats how i feel about this incredibly strong year and the uber bullish reaction, dow gaining another 56 points, s p up and nasdaq. Theres just not enough supply, stock to meet the demand from buyers who had to radically switch orientation to deal with a much more positive backdrop. And thats been very good for the averages and your portfolio. Whenever anybody talks about stock shortage, automatically greet them with a little skepticism there are always bankers ready to pump out stock to meet demand but its not a wholesale shortage of stocks but stocks that fit the program meaning belonging to companies that are high domestic taxpayers and got a big boost to their earnings recent performance of amazon not doing well versus walmart, on fire two largest retailers out there. Walmart, effective tax rate of 32 , soon to be cut to 21 consistently buying back stock for he years amazon has higher but dont pay much in taxes because dont have much in earnings, spending to win and aggressive issuer of its own stock over the years not a lot of shortage there. Walmart had 14. 1 billion shares outstanding but buybacks, under 3 billion shares last tally. Amazon, 24 million ten years ago but tie 482 million. When Portfolio Managers want to reach for a big company thats major beneficiary, thinking walmart, not amazon. Could see them dumping since the latter is wellrun and accelerating online initiatives. Contrast is stark. Walmart used to have tons of turnover at store level, costly, you have to spend a lot of money to train replacements. But thanks to recent pay raises, turnovers dropped dramatically. Apparently paying people a living wage is good for business who knew walmart has great fundamentals and fits the program ive been talking about. Because of the buybacks in even shorter supply given 290 billion company. Just doesnt take as much buying power as you think to move up this behemoth. And amazon very much doesnt fit the program and lot more shares go around floating all over the place. People who dumped stock of amazon may be right shortterm but i think get bad case of sellers remorse when they talk about how great they did over the holidays fact is sooner or later, new tax regime will be priced in the market and investors will stop penalizing Companies Like amazon that dont benefit from it that much given the passage was a surprise and analysts just now figuring out its impact, my guess that this could continue longer than people think another example of the shortage phenomenon industrials been buying back stock. Why . For ages not enough worldwide demand for the products. Instead of investing in the business, close factory and artificially shrink the number of shares. Now a triple bull whammy in their favor. U. S. Economy and rest of the world, getting stronger. Second benefit from accounting change that makes it cheaper and easier for clients to buy heavy machinery and goods. Put that with number three, buybacks, honest to goodness stock shortage in industrials, caterpillar anyone hundreds of billions likely to flood into the market this year and next through index fund buy, dont have enough shares to go around from business perspective, very few losers under the bill. Big and little Tech Companies wont benefit as much as industrials or even domestic retailers. Thats all the market cares about right now, relative winners at this momentum plus Tech Companies tend to be aggressive issuing new stock and pay people in stock. Both less attractive and no splash orders to speak of. How much does this matter . Homeowners are one of the few industries that could arguably do worse under the new tax reform business. Curtails mortgage Interest Deduction and state and local tax deduction. But toll brothers, states where residents buy pricey homes like they make, could get whomped without that deduction yet what happened to the stock hasnt even dropped. I think its because its buying back shares at furious pace. On top of that, at times tolls tax bill been as high as 37 tax reform might cause fewer to buy homes, make it up and then some with the tax rate cant stress this enough, hearing that changes to the tax code are baked into the market already. Who are these people almost impossible given the swiftness of the passage and surprise it took so many people. And our markets performance in line with other industrial countries. They didnt just pass tax cuts not fully baked in much more ahead. If you presume this is giveaway to big business and Companies Use it just to boost dividends and buy back stock, will be good for the stock market boosting earnings for each company. How much does this matter . Best, most rigorous argument against this market has been its high valuation its expensive although not as expensive as it seems given the paltry competition from bonds with tax reform it is entirely possible that the best bear case out there just got neutered. How the heck can you say the market is too high next year when the estimates become way too low . Oxymoronic take away that problem and this strong part of the bear thesis does seem to lets just say crumble. Given all the positives, analyst after analyst will come up with new names to recommend as soon as next year or maybe next week. I think the calls will have impact each time Portfolio Managers are desperate to find stocks that work and companies are being cagey how much theyll benefit from the tax cut. Remember that some of the Companies Like banks cant raise numbers yet because probably havent figured out tax rates, net interest margins or increase in demand from big clients desperate for Financial Advice there are things that can go wrong, especially, exogenous situation, black swan like my executive producer is wearing at this very moment thats what you have to fear maybe not that black swan. But you get the point. Bottom line is were in a different, better and cheaper kind of market here. Im only one who seems to want to say it. But i dont care i think it brings buyers in from the sidelines. Wholesale reallocation of capital. Keep buying this market perhaps for some time to come. Jim in florida jim. Caller hey cramer, florida booyah. Go knowles, booyah calling about blue apron, aprn is todays dip a buying opportunity or sell and move i dont like the company, tax loss selling will abate next week, maybe a higher price, dump it then. Albert in florida. Caller booyah opinions on alrm and connected home space i like it but connected home is not that big a business yet, but i do like the company and there are offthe shelf products good here but like the idea i was doing work on little cameras, and i know theyre doing well as business and stock has come down a lot. Linda in ohio. Caller hey jim i had a question on sage therapeutics, with the new drug for depression, putting patients in remission, down 4 today. Is it a buy for longterm . I got to tell you im concerned. Read the literature, theyre early on making such hoopla statement about it read the literature, its not as defined as they would make it, as the market would make it sound. Its not long island bitcoin block j t but you know what i mean josh in new york. Caller calling from new rochelle its inexpensive stock. Biggest problem is one large shareholder might start selling again but its very well run, the stock is compelling. No one is talking about it were in a different market, a better and cheaper market, a market full of winners and tonight, this week, gold could be due for update. If the commodity is ready to run, should you be looking for play in this space sitting down with the ceo to see whats ahead and tax bill official, gathering around the fire for questions. And what is next for paychecks now that tax bill is improved. Ive got the ceo stick with cramer. Announcer dont miss a second of mad money, follow jimcramer on twitter have a question . Tweet cramer, hashtag madtweets send an email to madmoney cnbc. Com or give us a call at 1800743cnbc miss something . Head to madmoney. Cnbc. Com. music plays throughout cannot live without it. So if you cant live without it. Why arent you using this guy . It makes your wifi awesomely fast. No. Still nope. Now were talking it gets you wifi here, here, and here. It even lets you take a time out. No no yes yes, indeed. Amazing speed, coverage and control. All with an xfi gateway. Find your awesome, and change the way you wifi. Earlier this week we checked in with carly karner, resident commodities expert, argued that gold could be due for update what do you do with gold mining stock . Aem for home gamers, high quality operator with eight mines across canada, finland and mexico, and exploration in u. S. And sweden 2016 stock caught fire, rallying nearly 55 this year reversed up 6 , trailing 10 gain in gold and broader averages reason some may be because people genuinely believe that bitcoin is replacing gold as repository of the worlds wealth. Gets harder to believe as cryptocurrency pulls back from highs. Company raised production forecast, what we want to see. Could this gold stock be ready to get its groove back sean boyd is ceo of agnico eagle mines. Welcome back to mad money. Nice to be here jim give us a lay of the land why your company is real and other Gold Companies make projections and miss them hard and fast . Lot of it has to do with 60year history. Weve realized over that period that its a longterm business its tough business, you have to invest in the future during the period from 2012 to 2015 when most of our competitors were retrenching, selling assets, cutting exploration budgets and cutting people we were investing in juniors sh adding people and expanding drills set us up for further growth, see production increasing 25 between now and 2020 lot of Gold Companies had to reach and go to areas where the governments have lets say not been fair to company and taking more and more any country ever tried to confiscate your gold or put on arrangement that you think is lets say prohibitive to your profits . No. And when i was hired 32 years ago, founder of the company, his motto was agnico eagle does not know where they dont wear overcoats in the winter. Thats a way of saying avoid the political risks. Mining is tough enough, take the rest of the noise out of the equation you have a mine in mexico, 300 an ounce finding. Labor costs and fabulous veins if you can just do nothing but mine from that, make a fortune every day. Mexican business has been one of the best cash flow generators mines tend to be quick to build, quick payback, high investment returns and lower cost thats an area we hope to expand over the next several years. You just routinely it seems raise your forecast for Gold Production why are you so certain and many of the other Gold Companies are reluctant to give you a forecast i think its just to do with the history and experience of the company. Weve got a if feel for those places in the world we choose to operate in quebec, four mines close to each other, Nguyen Yvette is connected to that business we have a good handle on what we have, and take ameasured to approach to growing and mma. Its managing approach and balanced approach. Told us seasonally this is the right time for gold and may be ready for a big move. Do you have a forecast for 2018 . Weve been doing a lot of meetings with generalist investor crowd theres no shortage of the meetings our sense is investors are starting to do their homework, revisiting the high quality gold equity there is a sense that gold is about to turn here wouldnt be surprised 1,400 to 1,500 in next months beginning to turn. Somebody told me gold will be replaced by bitcoin because more sure 4,000 years it worked and no longer, time to buy bitcoin. He had college degree, not a yahoo. What do you say to those people . Gold is highly developed market, liquid, efficient store of value and portfolio diversifier. Thats why you need to own it. One of the things about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, is there really unlimited supply . Are the developers of the cryptocurrencies just mining the public wow, im going to use that from now on, youre a real miner and gold has been good for 4,000 years. Its proven itself. Hard to believe its going away just because of Technology People can invest in cryptocurrencies but now is the time to own gold stock market setting record levels, rather own gold than bitcoin. Im totally with you. Thats the way its been for me and for you. Thank you so much for coming on. Sean boyd, ceo vice chairman of the board at agnico eagle mines. Mad money is back after the break. Directv has been rated number one in Customer Satisfaction over cable for 17 years running. But some people still like cable. Just like some people like preshaken sodas. Having their seat kicked on an airplane. Being rammed by a shopping cart. Sitting in gum. And walking into a glass door. But for everyone else, theres directv. 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For christmas opening up custodial investment accounts for each to teach them about investing in the stock market hoping for tips from you for a couple of stocks for them to choose from. Only a few hundred dollars to three or four picks in 20 under under range. Hoping to see what advice you have for me . First be clear whenever we start these things, mutual funds, s p, mutual funds you like what i did for my kids but then if youre allowed to have individual stocks in your account, i would ask them what they like. Because its really a drag to have someone own a stock, dont really know what company does, cant say it in three sentences, so buy something that goes down, blow it out. Ask your kids what they like, tell them to google it, read a conference call. If they dont want to read that, maybe just stick with mutual funds. Carey in ohio. Caller how are you doing couldnt be better. Caller honor and pleasure to be on the show watched for years. Thank you weve been on for years. Caller main question is if you look at various transaction speeds of the crypttos out there, cant help but notice light coin faster than bitcoin, is that a main factor or is it user adoption . I think its going to be depth of market, how much friction when i see the futures in the two different exchanges, different prices thats crazy cant have futures be that off youre looking for a market thats more transparent and has one price to it. Lite probably less deep because theyre first mover advantage. Dave in illinois caller dr. Cramer, so good to join you in relaxing chat in front of the warm fire. I couldnt agree more dave. Whats happening 50th time, long time caller whats that youre a pleasure to talk to and weve heard you before and think your questions about as good as we can get, hit me caller youre too kind here it is 2017 has been a great year for u. S. Equities, s p will finish up 18 and priced 18 to 19 times forward earnings, recent corporate and individual tax cuts, repatriation of overseas cash and feds actions to raise the fed funds rate three times while simultaneously and gradually unwinding the bloated Balance Sheet will present us a different investing environment for 2018 jim, how do you view macro environment for investors in u. S. Equity markets in 2017 . Thank you i think 16 times earnings, will find out that market turned out to be cheap, Interest Rates wont go that high because not enough demand for money yet and plenty sloshing around i think well see what is thought of as expensive market will turn out to be cheap one. Mark in michigan caller booyah, this is mark from michigan. First thank you and your staff taking my call and all the good work you do for us small gamblers educational and insightful i converted 401 k into cash, bulk into index fund converted to cash for two reasons, first since the president ial election, s p increase of 10 and didnt want to be greedy thought get while the getting is good second, concerned about the geopolitical tensions between the u. S. And north korea so concerned i decided to go completely into cash, although you recommended differently, i couldnt pass the sleep test s p has increased another 14 , question is when and how do you think i should start reinvesting cash back into the s p 500 also in trading account i have substantial position in sirius satellite, should i continue to hold thanks again i like sirius satellite and discovery. You got to buy something next week all right . Maybe lets say 15 back, every day buy some then wait. Let it come down if it doesnt, go back and buy again. Dont buy in the first week unless its down a lot this is really important you cannot, cannot, cannot wait for a big decline to start investing. You got to start now got way too little exposure and not going to make enough cash. Once you get up to 30 , 40 , wait for pullback yeah its that good of a market want cash but not that much. Janet in wyoming. Caller hi. A lot of retirees like me depend on dividends from Real Estate Development trusts for food on the table and lot have dates clustered in a week. For past two days prices have been dropping. Could be because of the uptick in bond prices but do you see this dip as a buyable dip . So i can maybe have steak rather than chicken or is it truly a frightening beginning of 30 drop like 2013. I know you dont have a crystal ball but what do you think if you buy highest quality reits youll do fine some in a knee jrk way sell these. Some of these companies are worth a great deal when they throw away federal royalty, and others, you have to be there dont give you also like epr, which by the way mays on monthly basis. Fireside chat of 2017, merry christmas, happy new year, much more mad money ahead including exclusive with paychex and company that works with ferrari, airbus, google and unilever youve never heard of and tonight ease edition of the lightning round, stick with Cramer Crame