Why not . Theyre acting hideously. It could be because they have more oil loans than we dont know about, or maybe just theyre going down because theyre going down, the industry is collectively lying to us. They have all the huge exposure to European Banks. In other words, people are worried that theres systemic risk, that havent yet happened again, and for the report might not happen at all again, but we have tore scared out of our wits, because thats what we did in 2011 and decided to sell everything, because the market went count 19 . There, thats the scenario. Plus oil is going down. We have Oil Executives chattering about how well have to put crude in swimming pools, because theres so little Storage Space left. I thought it was a funny comment. But the oil futures guy realize its dangerous to own oil. The market bounced somewhat when once again we heard press reports i could have said lies but that there might be an emergency opec meeting. Thats after crude fell. Its lowest level since 2003. The rumor was certainly right on time. Call me cynical. Maybe the stock market is right and oil is going higher, but cutting has been wrong, so lets presume this one is, too. Lets presume that oil could repeat the scenario, when it plummet fred almost exactly where it is now down to ten bucks in a very short period of time, january to march, thats right, 26 to 10 in less than three months. That would cause a lot of pain among banks. That makes sense, there is a lot of exposure. Im not sugarcoating that, but lets stand everything on its head. Lets leave crazytown. Were going to walk over to noncrazy town. We arent s p 500 futures traders here. Were not trying to catch these intraday moves. Were not big hedge funds that are nimble, doing algorithms. Were trying to buy stocks of companies we like and prices we like, but didnt expect to get, because we didnt think this would be a marketwide sale. Last night i said if the stock of disney were to go back to the low of 86, down from 122, you should buy some. Things change, except its more positive, more people go to the if you followed that and bought disney, well youre already um four bucks, but thats not what we want you to hold it for maybe months, maybe years. How about Procter Gamble . The darn thing just wont sell easily 1. 6 , a 3. 3 yield from a company that has a huge energy bill. Suddenly they come up and you get a chance to buy into weakness. Thank you deutsche bank, socgen, you cant afford to not buy pg at these levels. Added bonus you know that super freaking strong dollar im always talking about. The Exchange Rate from the dollar and euro has come back down to where it was a year ago. The super freakin strong dollar aint super freakin anymore, thats monster good for procter. They do a lot of stuff around there. How about cisco . When cisco reported much better than expected quarter last night and boosted the different to the point where it gave you a 2. 45 yield, the to be immediately rallied. Did a good job, but i want to thank the german banks, french and italian banks for giving a price to cisco that was positively insane. Sometimes the market truly angers me. No matter how they tell you theyre in huge trouble and big derivatives, the book of this and that, and theyre going to fail, this darn mcdonalds stock wont come in. I mean, what the heck is that about . You get a stock that yields 3 and a hue beneficiary of a strong euro, plunging raw costs, and the darn thing wont sell off. I thought the declines would cause the s p 500 to go down enough to get a bargain at mcdonalds, nah, i guess well have to rumor more german banks doing badly. It gives you a chance how about this j j . I keep thinking the president ial even len or the europe yang bank they have an amazing Balance Sheet, and accelerating Revenue Growth into one of these says you need to be ready if or when that happens. Maybe in janet yellen really things, well get to buy j j at 96 instead of 101. Am i being too glib here . No. You see in 2011 which whole countries were indeed blowing up piigs . And all hell was breaking loose . These banks should have gone belly you have, but they regulate differently over there. They like, you know, give them a wink and nod, the authorities look the other way, they let the stay in business. Now that these countries are all sol vent and the European Bank is run by a smart guy, you think they dont have a plan to recapitalize every bank in trouble . They have genuine crony capitalism. They did it before when the banks were technically insolvent, or bail them hoyt in some way that doesnt bring down the house. Honestly. I have no why the. Ceding opportunities for those willing to own individual stocks rather than flit in and out of the futures, which will be hit every time theres a rumor of a bank failure or oil goes down or some Federal Reserve officials says something crazy and all three of those will happen repeatedly. Thats the kind of year its shaping up to be. If youre a futures trader, then you have a lot more pain ahead. Thats just the game. All right . You didnt get any checks off the checklist today, but if you buy the individual stock, i mentioned better prices and you own them for more than 45 minutes . I think you come out a winner. Caller jim, bad day for the European Banks. Recently you recommended key bank. Its proposed a merger with first niagara bank, both of western new york banks, today paper quotes Governor Cuomo has joined the growing chorus of pool tick of the acquisition. Governor claims negative impact with merger and threatening that legal act, are we going to socialism . I was surprised at that. We have banks so big you would think they would let beth mooney take over this bank and make it so it works. I dont like the financials now, i think that key represents real value. I was shocked at that. I didnt see it coming. I still believe in key, but i am not pushing any of the financials on the show. I do think they have a place in the portfolio. Wrong. Lets go to mark in pennsylvania, please. Hey, jim, i was wondering what you thought about nvcr, novacure. They have new cancer treatments. I wanted to know where you think the stock is going. Its down 50 , its a total spec, if you understand that, then youre find. This market is not kind to speculators, if you have that understanding and you want to go there, im not going to stop you. Mike in new jersey . Mike . Caller jim. Mike, whats happening . Caller not too much. Hey, i know this stock is not the best in breed, but i have about five to ten years to wait. Nokia with the intellectual property and recent acquisition of lucent. I like it. What do you think for the next three to five years. Maybe, but why not own cisco . Its got a 4 yield, great Balance Sheet, Chuck Robbins is doing a terrific job. I say no to nokia and yes to cisco, the csco kind. Take your pick. In a market like this, you can be scared or paralyzed. Maybe you can be smart. Smart investors know that patients can actually be wait for your pitch. Its where is the beef . Im sitting down with the companys top executives, or where is the bean burger . Which i like. Janet yellen, ill tell you why she didnt do it right. Did panera cook up a comeback . Dont miss my exclusive with the founder to find out if the restaurant has the ingredients to rise against. Pnra. Stick with cramer. Dont miss a second of mad money. Follow jimcramer on twitter. Madtweets. Send jim an email to madmoney cnbc. Com, or give us a call at 1800743cnbc. Miss something in help to madmoney. Cnbc. Com. 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Is this simply another example of this panicked stock market throwing the baby out with the bath water . Lets deal with the outgoing ceo and successor to find out where the quarter is headed. Welcome back to mad money, and welcome to mad money. Thank you. This is taking a bow here. You delivered an amazing return, yet ear starting with deliciously different now, what are the expectations for that program . This is a great opportunity for us to tell the consumer what separates us from everybody else out there, and weve got about food since 196 and deliciously different will really drive home those differences and talk not just about the hamburgers, but great items like our black bean burger that you had the opportunity to taste. Let me ask todd about that. This is a burger, yes, indeed, i struggle sometimes do go with meal kids. Why . Because they want a veggie burger. This is not an easy think to make . Can it go national . It definitely can go national. What we want to do is provide the consumer with some options within the restaurant, but really in the spirit of quality is our recipe, this is offering that can ladder up to that quality message. We feel very good in the test restaurants, how its performing today. Today it would be the irsats, to me than a hamburger. I do want to talk about the gasoline notion. You have customers, not all wealthy, right . This must be good for them. They must maybe step up to wendys from another place or maybe an extra fry, an extra chili . No, absolutely. You know, it wasnt that long ago that gas was regular gas, 3. 94 at peak, and now its more like 3 excuse me 1. 70. This has put a lot of money in pockets of individuals with lower households incomes who are very heavy users of quickserve restaurants. We they its been an important factor in putting together several very nice quarters. Theres a perception among something that all wendys has always prided itself on being fresh, recent flitting in this market . Absolutely. Its spot on with the trends, fresh, never frozen, north american beef. Its who we have always been. We have the vegetables cut fresh every day in that restaurant. Were spinning our lettuce fresh every single day and preparing it how and when you want it. Weve been doing that for 46 years. You are from a franchise background. You know how important the franchisees are. Whats the relationship . The relationship is as good as its ever been. Weve done a nice job connecting and partnering with a Franchise Community to make sure we are all in this together in the spirit of bug one team united. My father was a franchisee, so ive had a long connection to make sure that the economic model works for our Franchise Community, and well continue to partner through joint capital plans to bring that all to light. Youve been buying back a huge amount of stock. A good use of capital . We bought back almost 100 million shares, and we believe its a great way to return value to our shareholders, and were going to continue to do that with excess cash, as well as continue to grow our dividends at the same pace of net income growth. We think were a stock that can provide growth as well as and food safety costs a lot of money, and its obviously from the news weve had. Can fastfood restaurants afford higher jim, thats why weve made a conscious investment in technology. We have a lab called 90 degree labs on the outskirts of ohio state university, and were spending a lot of money to really work on consumerfacing technology kiosks, mobile ordering, mobile payment. We want to put the hands of the operations into the consumer. They want to control their own destiny. Other labor costs to do other things, to invest back in the food, to invest back into the service model. Okay. Last question. Emil, the younger people might be naturally interested in a bean burger are people who watch media, they watch social media. Sure. What are you doing to get in tough touch with the natural market, what the younger people want. We use very much a 360degree approach to our media efforts for all our products. With a product like this, youll see a very significant push against social and digital media. Weve even used this on a local level and really have connected with consumers on it. Theres a lot of consumers groups called a flexitarian. They go meatless for a day or two every week. Thats a growing, Significant Group of people. This is not just targeted at the flexitarian, but the Broader Group as well. Youve done a good job. You brought out great gross margins, just terrific samestore sales, and emil is the outgoing ceo, and im a flexitarian. Mad money is back after the break. Coming up, the Great Outdoors . High performance apparel giant Columbia Sportswear supplies the gear. 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Deflation, i feel like this could be a savior moment for yellen, because she has a chance to save not just america, but the entire world. She could say in front of congress lets not talk about higher rates until the Global Economy is in a less precarious position, lets speak of inflationary or deflationary extremes. Simple comments, but instead the agenda is incredibly narrowminded. I waffle between being angry at the fed coming out and saying some tough stuff and wanting to shake the members into reality in the real economy. Im mindful of ben bernanke who did so much good, singled me out in the courage to act when i did my rant in the summer of before a lot of firms went belly up, and the, and i was, it kind of hurt my feelings, but im a big boy. Im all right. So let me puts it in a more statesman like manner. Those texts were written before amazon and walmart laid waste to higherpaying retail jobs, before of digitization and offshoring that behalf the way of our country. They were written before nafta, they were written before the shared economy made it so people have to scrape by on multiple shifts. Lastly the new state and local the minimum wages being put through, thats whats moving up wages, not a tight labor market. Theres such a glut. Millions of people would work for less than they do if it werent for the minimum wages. However, if Jan Janet Yellen somehow the aerospace, housing and auto cycles do top out to throw some people out of work. We wont get anywhere with her noticing where the credit default swaps are, or how the bubble burt in oil will cause tremendous credit contractions or how china is probably contracting for a good part of the industrial economy. These things jobs increasing and radical decline in credit arent supposed to be happening at the same time. Thats what the texts said. They are, though, that givers he a chance why not become the worlds beacon . Lets shelf any rate hike discussions for now. It could have the added advantage of keeping extremist antiwall street candidates off the ballot. Yellen continues on her source, she makes it more likely that come november someone with a radical different set the ideas certainly ones where the fed could be obviated, could win the white house.