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Mad Money is an American business television program hosted by James Cramer that began airing on the CNBC cable/satellite TV channel on Monday, March 14, 2005. Cramer previously co-hosted the CNBC program Kudlow & Cramer with Lawrence Kudlow. Cramer is also a co-founder of TheStreet.com, one of its most popular writers, and its largest shareholder. Before his media ventures, Cramer managed a hedge fund, Cramer and Company then called Cramer, Berkowitz and Company. At his fund, Cramer averaged a 24% annual return. It was this impressive record, as well as his colorful personality and background in media, that led to his current position.

Cramer defines "mad money" as the money an individual has left over to invest with, after paying bills and setting aside funds for retirement (Cramer does not recommend speculating with retirement assets).

Mad Money replaced Dylan Ratigan's Bullseye for the 6 PM Eastern Time slot. On Tuesday, May 17, 2005, coincidentally the eleventh birthday of Cramer's daughter Emma, CNBC began airing reruns of the show at 9 PM and midnight, Eastern Time, and at 4 AM, Eastern Time, on Saturdays.

Mad Money is a departure from CNBC's typical business programming. Rather than providing viewers with the same financial news offered by CNBC's regular programming (and also easily available in most financial publications), Cramer provides his viewers with investment advice and strategy (as well as entertainment).

Features of the program

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Jim Cramer throws a chair to start the "Lightning Round", the show's most popular segment.

The majority of the hour features the flamboyant, colorful Cramer shouting, leaping, and gesticulating around the set and at the camera, all while providing his viewers with investment advice. Arguably, this format skews the show more towards being entertainment rather than a source of financial information. Many financial professionals attest to Cramer's skill at picking stocks and explaining principles of sound investment; the individual investors who call into the show also seem to hold Cramer's advice in high regard. Cramer himself says that the goal of his show is to entertain the viewer and provide the viewer with good, sound investment advice.

Cramer is usually standing up with the fisheye lens Steadicam close to his face, zooming in and out, all the while providing his stock picks and his reasoning (with his voice inflection known to suddenly change from calm to shouting). Cramer also throws various objects on the set (papers, pencils, etc.) and even smashed up a model plane when explaining his thoughts on Boeing stock; on another episode he used a telephone receiver to destroy a computer keyboard. Whenever his book - Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World - is mentioned by a caller, he scurries to grab the book, flashes it for a split-second, and promptly tosses it to the floor as a cheap plug gag (on more recent episodes, he has been putting the book back on the table, rather than throwing it). He also has small, plastic bulls (and bears) that he either throws around, squeezes or decapitates - not necessarily with his hands, but usually a ball-point pen, knife, or even his teeth. On a show that aired on February 14, 2006, he featured an entire show centered around these bulls. After a 130 point gain in the Dow, Cramer, dressed as a chef complete with hat and apron, chopped off the heads of the bears with a large chef knife and placed them into a pan with onions and tomatoes. He called it a "bear stir-fry" or a "bear souffle." A similar event occurred on February 28th, 2006 where he put his toy bulls through various kitchen appliances such as a slicer (which he clogged and complained about) and a food processor. It's not hard to see the bulls' locations, since Cramer has a lot of them decorated all over the studio (there are usually more bulls than bears on the set). Recently the studio has also featured Cramer bobblehead dolls which utter phrases (such as "Are You Ready Skee-Daddy?"). The bobbleheads, bulls, and bears are so popular that they have sold on eBay for over $70, $40, and $35 respectively. Also, Cramer has National Football League yellow penalty and red coach's challenge flags that he throws whenever he believes a company has behaved unethically (penalty) or when he questions a stock decision (coach's challenge), respectively. He will also throw the flag when a caller unethically uses the national television audience to promote a stock for self-interest. If a caller rambles on and on about their own thoughts on a stock, Cramer will lie down on the floor of the set with a Mad Money pillow and blanket and act as if he is going to sleep.

Mad Money Segments

The general format of the show starts with two segments, where Cramer recommends one or more stocks in a group with his rationale for choosing them. At the end of each segment Cramer will take 1-2 calls from viewers with questions about either the stock he recommended, or another stock in the same industry or which the viewer thinks may benefit from the topic discussed.

The third segment is the popular Lightning Round (see below).

Segments four and five will feature either one of the segments listed below, an interview with a CEO, CFO, or an officer at a company Cramer wishes to feature, or another recommendation. Cramer does not take calls on these later segments except for the Am I Diversified? and Stump the Cramer segments.

The final segment is a short recap of the day's show.

Some of the segments featured on Mad Money include:

1. Am I Diversified? - a segment where Cramer evaluates a caller's portfolio to see if it is well-balanced between different sectors in the stock market
2. Pick of the Week - a segment in which Cramer picks a very good stock that should be bought or given great attention, usually before it is known or praised by others in the stock market
3. Beating the Racket - a feature where Cramer argues "nose to nose" with fellow financial columnist Herb Greenberg (in person or via satellite) in which Greenberg focuses mainly on stocks that could lose money, usually a stock Cramer recommended
4. Cramer vs Cramer - a segment in which Cramer checks the accuracy of his stock predictions from previous weeks
5. Danger Zone - a segment in which Cramer profiles a stock that does not have sound investment fundamentals but may appear attractive to investors
6. Mad Mail, a segment in which Cramer answers e-mail questions sent to mailto:[email protected]
7. The Week That Was - a video montage featuring various moments from the current week, aired on Fridays
8. Pimpin' All Over The World - a segment (not actually using this title, but Cramer will reference the song by Ludacris of the same name) where Cramer profiles a potential play in an international market. Usually the play is not a direct investment--Cramer considers many of those to be too dangerous due to lack of accurate financial insight, especially in emerging stock markets--but a derivative, often another foreign company with ADR's traded on the American markets with significant investments in the emerging market, though in some cases Cramer will advise against the ADR's (if they trade on the pink sheets, which Cramer believes do not have significant volume to generate profits) and recommend actually buying the stock in the foreign exchange.
9. Stump The Cramer - a segment in which callers reveal a stock they believe Cramer doesn't know anything about; if successful, the caller receives an autographed copy of his latest book, Jim Cramer's Real Money.
10. Am I Nuts? - a feature which premiered on the first Main Event special in which Cramer "evaluates a patient" (from the live audience) to figure out, just as the segment's namesake, if the person is nuts in owning a certain stock, and then gives them a "prescription." This segment is considered to be a Main Event exclusive.

During the show, subtitles will appear whenever Cramer makes an obscure reference to a historical event, figure, etc. Also, whenever Cramer mentions a stock that his charitable trust, ActionAlertsPlus.com, owns, the subtitle states that the trust owns the stock (usually he mentions it during his discussion but occasionally he forgets). (Most financial news shows have policies mandating if an analyst holds positions in stocks they discuss, they must inform viewers of such.)

The Lightning Round

The only segment which appears on every Mad Money show, and which is by far the most popular, is the Lightning Round segment, where viewers call in (on live shows, they stand before a microphone in the audience) and ask Cramer about a specific stock. However, he does not know the callers, nor their stock questions ahead of time, & his staff prepares the graphics on the fly. (Information about how to call in is given to callers at 1-800-743-CNBC.) Cramer's object is to showcase his encyclopedic knowledge of stocks (and his flamboyant personality) by taking as many calls as possible before the buzzer goes off, but when it does, Cramer gets upset and may take 1-2 more calls (he sometimes threatens to take between 3-7 more calls yet always fail to meet that blatant exaggeration). Prior to beginning of the segment Cramer will abuse the office chair provided for him by throwing it on top of other "victims" (damaged office chairs), also damaging the studio's wall and glass displays as well. The damage was made apparent by a caller in the lightning round on March 1, 2006, which prompted Cramer to throw his chair again at the glass display, causing it to crack even more. At the start of the segment on March 6, 2006, nearly two-thirds of the glass display on the right side of the set was damaged by Cramer throwing a chair through the display, twice, which showed only the letter "M," the first letter of the word "MAD," as seen on the display. The original glass display on the right side of the set (which was shattered by Cramer throwing the chair through the display the previous month) was replaced with a new one on April 12, 2006. These types of chair throws will often be reaired at the end of the round with the narrator saying, "This isn't business as usual". Sometimes the chair will have stock information papers stapled to it that Cramer disagrees with, giving him more incentive to throw the chair (in which Cramer's staff plays the sound of breaking glass). This is to defy the typical CNBC "sit-down, bore-talk" type show. The segment usually airs at 20 minutes past the hour for approximately 15-18 minutes. Additionally, a new "Overtime" session debuted at the end of The Lightning Round on the March 2nd, 2006 episode. In conjunction with the buzzer going off, a siren is heard, the "On Air" light flashes repeatedly, and the monitors around the set has Cramer rotating infinitely with lightning and siren images merged into the background, that latter also displaying on the viewer's TV screen at random intervals. Cramer took 5 more calls after this, adding more energy to the already high-octane segment.

A recent change to the Lightning Round, mostly to add more callers on the segment, started on the March 24, 2006 episode, when Cramer stated that he would no longer throw the chair at the start of the lightning round everyday, reserving it only for select occasions, mostly when he can "justify" throwing it due because of negative events, bad market days, or lies are said about stocks which he could refute (those are usually put on the chair to be thrown). One of those examples, came on an April 18, 2006 episode, when he threw the chair after he was upset about UnitedHealth, one of the stocks he owns in his charitable trust. Eliminating the chair throw usually saves about a minute which is used to add or or two more callers.

Mad Money Sound Effects

Another of the features that make the show stand out are the on-screen graphics and radio-like sound effects that Cramer activates during the show. The effects are activated with a panel of oversized red buttons, with the exception of sounds made after Cramer tosses his book to the floor after a caller mentions it (those sounds are made by the studio crew).

The effects are:

1. graphics with sounds:
   1. a pair of bellowing bulls
   2. a pair of roaring bears
2. sounds only:
   1. squealing pigs (a reference to someone holding a stock too long before selling, and missing out on the profits -- or as he says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, but pigs/hogs get slaughtered"--or some reference to a meat company when it is being discussed.)
   2. a screaming man falling out of a window and then crashing on the ground (a stock Cramer considers to be "killing everyone." Cramer sometimes calls this sound a "man out the window.")
   3. a wrecking train (a stock Cramer considers to be a disaster. Cramer calls this sound a "train wreck.")
   4. a train coming to a stop
   5. an National Football League referee calling, "Personal foul. Unsportsmanlike conduct." (unethical behaviour by a company, or a question Cramer does not like, such as a caller trashing a Cramer favorite stock)
   6. an alarm in a diving submarine and the submarine captain commanding, "Dive!"
   7. a train conductor calling, "All aboard!"
   8. a ringing cash register (used when Cramer recommends selling all or part of a caller's current holding)
   9. a buzzing sound (buzzer); this is also activated by Cramer's staff to signify the end of The Lightning Round
   10. a bomb whizzing while in free fall and then exploding as it crashes
   11. a trumpet playing Call to the Post (a kind of bugle call, a horse racing reference) usually heard at the beginning of The Lightning Round
   12. Cramer uttering, "Sell, sell, sell." (triple sell)
   13. Cramer yelling "Don't buy! Don't buy!" (his line from a cameo in Arrested Development)
   14. a machine gun being fired
   15. a choir singing Hallelujah from Handel's Messiah (used when a caller asks whether to sell or hold on to a stock that has done well).
   16. a bowling ball knocking down pins ("pin action" reference)
   17. a truck beeping while backing up (usually used when he recommends large purchases of a stock, which he refers to as a "'Mon Back")
   18. a hotel reception bell
   19. a toilet flushing
   20. a guillotine's blade falling
   21. a heart monitor flatlining (generally referring to a stock that hasn't done anything, either upwards or downwards)
   22. a crowd cheering with a round of applause (commonly used when a caller's family--especially children--give Cramer a Booyah)
   23. an ominous voice saying "the house of pain" (used when a Cramer or caller's stock pick didn't do as well as hoped)
   24. a stampede (presumably of bulls)
   25. Cramer uttering, "Buy, buy, buy." (triple buy)
   26. a dog barking
   27. howling ghosts (a Halloween reference used to represent a probable disaster of a stock/company or a very risky stock to buy, sell or hold, but especially during Triple Witching Hour)
   28. a baby crying (preferably a girl toddler)
   29. playing of "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (American company or "Stars and Stripes" reference)
   30. a jail cell closing, the pun being "sell" block
   31. a sultry-sounding female saying "house of pleasure" (used when a Cramer or caller's stock pick has done well; the opposite of "the house of pain")
   32. a gun being cocked then fired
3. sounds heard after Cramer throws his book to the side
   1. a high-pitched voice saying "oh!"
   2. monkeys screaming
   3. a doorbell ringing
   4. an explosion
   5. a man coughing
   6. a car wrecking
   7. a crack of a whip, followed by a horse neighing
   8. an electric guitar playing a note
   9. a spring making a "boing" sound
   10. a "gong" sound
   11. water being splashed, possibly caused by a diver
   12. a crowd cheering
   13. a squeaking sound
   14. a baseball umpire saying, "strike!"

Sometimes, Cramer will press certain red buttons at once as explained above altogether if he is highly upset about a stock. This has happened many times in the show's run.

Cramer's catch phrases

1. Boo-yah! (see also Stuart Scott)/Boo-yes! (see also Matthew Stichnoth)
2. (That stock is) en fuego. (see also Dan Patrick)
3. Are you ready, skee-daddy?! It's the The Lightning Round on Cramer's Mad Money!
4. Hit me! / Speak to me / How 'bout a stock? / What's on your mind? (when he takes phone calls)
5. You! Me! Let's try to make some MO-NEY!!!... Mad Money! (during the opening sequence)
6. There's always a bull market somewhere, and I promise to try and find it just for you. (usually at the end of the show)
7. Go cry to your mother.
8. Wake up and smell the coffee / the hard prices.
9. Diversification is the only free lunch.
10. Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs/hogs get slaughtered!!!
11. I wish I'd own that company myself.
12. Uh–uh. (That stock's) not for me.
13. Best of breed. (you know I like / stick with best of breed)
14. Dive! Dive! Dive!
15. "Back 'em up!", "C'mon back!", "Load up / back up the truck!", "'Mon back!" (refers to backing up a semi-trailer to a loading dock to buy a lot of a particular stock he considers undervalued, used with his sound effect of the beeping truck).
16. Ring the register (i.e., sell the stock, or some of it, to take profits).
17. Are you an arbitrageur? We don't need arbitrageurs.
18. I like to schnitzel a bit / take some profit.
19. Some people try to make friends, I just try to make money. (Note: His "others make friends but I make money" line is often varied for each broadcast. On the early shows in 2006 Cramer proclaimed as his New Year's resolution that he has changed and wants to make friends, as well as help them make money. However, at the beginning of the January 6 show, he reveals that everyone can't keep New Year's resolutions forever, and is once again about making "mad money" and not friends.)
20. Here on Mad Money, we don't care where the stock's coming from, it's where it's going!
21. My job is to not only entertain you, but to educate you!
22. You know, I gotta tell ya...
23. The book! The book!/Holy cow, the book! (used when a caller mentions Cramer's book, he will then grab the book and flash it on the screen before tossing it aside)
24. That's (ticker symbol) for all you home gamers (for example, if Cramer were discussing Wal-Mart, he would say "that's WMT for all you home gamers")
25. OK. Let's understand each other here...
26. I'd give that stock two thumbs up (sometimes one thumb up), and we're taking it way up! (Recently, he has referenced a drinking game, that has college students taking two shots of tequila each time he gives the two thumbs up to a stock; he does not endorse that behavior, and it is uncertain if this is real or part of his routine.)
27. The bottom line... (this usually signifies either the end of a segment followed by a closing summary of a stock he was talking about before taking calls or going to commercial)
28. You stick/stay with [the stock] and you stick/stay with Cramer! (usually said at the end of The Lightning Round)
29. Oh man! (typically said when somebody says a unique 'boo-ya' statement)
30. Illegal procedure! (when caller pumps a stock that is very lightly traded)
31. Don't buy after hours without limit orders or you will get slaughtered!
32. Take advantage of some pin action (getting many points in bowling or in Cramer talk: make $$$)
33. You can't afford to miss this! (heard at the end of the opening sequence)
34. Pull the trigger!
35. Personal foul! And I'm doing a Coach's Challenge! (when he throws a yellow penalty flag, followed by a red challenge flag)

Boo-yah! catch phrase used by Cramer and his listeners

On Tuesday, May 24, 2005, a viewer asked Cramer by e-mail on Mad Money's Mad Mail segment what his boo-yah! catch phrase means, and Cramer replied he himself did not have a clue.

On the next day, Wednesday, May 25, 2005, two viewers e-mailed him on his Mad Money program and said that Cramer's boo-yah! catch phrase is similar to the Booyah registered trademark of the Booyah Bait Company [1] or to the phrase of SportsCenter's Stuart Scott, but Cramer answered that his phrase is not copied from that company nor from Stuart Scott, and that he apologizes for any similarities, since his boo-yah phrase means "Are you ready to make some money?"

On the August 19, 2005 episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Cramer explained the orgin of boo-yah: "Here's what happened: A guy calls me on my radio show, and he says ‘You made me a 100 smackers on K-Mart— a hundred points...’ —he's from New Orleans— ‘...and we have one word for that down here and it's boo-yah.’ Then the next guy calls and he says ‘you know you made me a lot of money on [a stock] so: boo-yah!’ And now they all says it. It's not my rap".

The boo-yah phrase has since become an opening greeting for his callers, similar to the "dittos" used by Rush Limbaugh callers. A popular trend is for callers to have their young children shout boo-yah; Cramer will announce "a familial booyah" and push the "crowd cheering" button. Another trend on the show is the "stuttering" boo-yah, "b-b-b-b-ooo-yah!"

Cramer has since come up with a new phrase, "Are you ready, skee-daddy? It's the Lightning Round on Jim Cramer's Mad Money!"

See also Booya.

Other commentary on Cramer phrases

In June 2005, a viewer explained to Cramer by e-mail the difference between a pig and a hog, which is a domesticated pig, so Cramer changed one of his catch phrases to "Bulls make money. Bears make money. Hogs get slaughtered.".

Mad Money Live Broadcasts

Mad Money has featured live broadcasts, the first four in 2005 were referred to as Mad Money Main Event, while the 2006 show was referred to as Mad Money Back to School.

Mad Money Main Events

The first Mad Money Main Event was broadcast on July 20, 2005. Cramer had his show taped in front of a live studio audience of about 150 guests. The show was promoted on CNBC using commercials that showed Cramer locked up in a padded room in a straitjacket and tape over his mouth, as if he was in a mental institution (a reference to Cramer's book, the subtitle of which is "Sane Investing in an Insane World"). The Main Event was introduced by boxing announcer Michael Buffer with his catch phrase "Let's get ready to rumble!". The featured guest on the show was New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer (a classmate of Cramer at Harvard Law School). Cramer went into the crowd and gave high fives to audience members who claimed to have had made money by following his stock tips. True to the commercials, it featured a segment titled Am I Nuts?, which had audience members asking Cramer about their stocks. Mad Money was expanded to a special 90 minute edition for this occasion.

Mad Money Main Event II premiered on October 26, 2005. In the commercials, Cramer is now a surgeon instead of a patient, who performs surgery on the crippling economy (in this case, from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, yet there were other factors). While "operating," Cramer proclaims "The bull's alive!" signifying that he was successful. It featured special guest Donald Trump. It ran for only 60 minutes and brought back Am I Nuts? from the first Main Event; this has been the trend for future shows.

Mad Money Main Event III was broadcast on November 30, 2005, and featured Mel Karmazin, CEO of Sirius Satellite Radio. Cramer entered the studio as a surgeon.

Mad Money Main Event IV premiered on January 11, 2006 with guest Les Moonves, CEO of CBS. This episode featured Cramer coming out in the straitjacket.

It is interesting to note that on each of the Main Events thus far, significant stock market activity has coincidentally occurred (e.g. Google reaching a price of 350, which Cramer had predicted, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average attaining a 4-year high.)

Mad Money Back to School

The first Mad Money Back to School event was broadcast on February 1, 2006 from Harvard (Cramer's alma mater). Cramer's special guest was Eliot Spitzer, who was a classmate of Cramer's at Harvard Law School. Cramer said that his favorite part of the taping was the question-and-answer session with students; due to the nature of the show, however, this segment was limited to approximately five minutes.

Football players Joey Armao, Stephen Sheehan and Carl Ehrlich assisted Jim in the Lightning Round. Cramer noted the three players were wearing Under Armour gear, and noted the downgrade of the company by a firm. He didn't like the downgrade, and the players assisted him in grabbing the chairs for the signature chair throw. But the players seemed to jump the gun too early, grabbing the chairs before Cramer gave the signal to start the Lightning Round. Once Cramer gave the signal, "Are you ready, ski daddy?", the players gave him a strong "Booyah!" before throwing the chairs to start the signature round.

The commercials promoting the event primarily featured "Britney", a cheerleader obsessed with Cramer (she has multiple copies of Cramer's book – "in case I want to read it more than once" – is smitten by Cramer's picture and bobblehead doll, and ends the commercials with the phrase "give your investments something to cheer about--Booyah!"). On the January 30, 2006 episode (the last live episode before the event, the January 31 episode was a special featuring Cramer's top 10 American industrial stocks), the final Lightning Round caller was identified as "Britney from Colorado"; this was a promo for the upcoming event as the caller was the "Britney" featured on the commercials.

The first Back to School broadcast gave Mad Money its single highest rated episode since it was launched. The 6pm ET airing produced a record 365,000 viewers, while the subsequent 9pm ET and 12am ET airings gave the program 138,000 and 128,000 viewers respectively. [2]

The second Back to School broadcast originated from the University of Michigan on April 25, 2006. This seems to give the idea that the show's "Back to School" tour will focus on America's top schools, private and public. Once again, commercials featuring the aforementioned "Britney" have aired at the beginning of segment breaks. Originally, the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was Cramer's second stop on the tour with an air date of March 29, 2006, but this visit was cancelled due to "logistics."

As of this writing, a third Back to School broadcast has been scheduled for Columbia University in New York City on May 16, 2006.

Other Special Broadcasts

Mad Money Anniversary Special

On March 14th, 2006, the 1st Mad Money Anniversary show occured. The episode was a mix of answering stock questions with a great number of clips from previous episodes.

The episode aired clips including past chair throws, specials, Herb Greenberg arguments, viewer call-ins, and other forms of media in which Cramer has been shown.

The anniversary special also introduced two new sound button animations, replacing the bull and bear animations with more animated, cartoonish bulls and bears, but retaining the green and red backgrounds. (Green means up, and red means down on a ticker.)

Viewer "Challenges"

Mad Money has promoted two viewer challenges, one in late 2005 and a currently ongoing contest in early 2006.

The Mad Money Challenge

In October 2005, the Mad Money Challenge was introduced - an online stock trading game where people ('investors') must earn the most money possible by investing in real stocks on the NASDAQ and NYSE. Players received $100,000 in false money to invest in any stock they wanted.

From October to December 20th, 2005, over 40,000 people participated, with the top investor (identified as "Greg from Massachusetts") winning with more than $250,000 and having the opportunity to speak with Cramer live on Mad Money.

As of January 2006, no announcement has been made for a subsequent Challenge.

Mad Money Booyah Challenge

In this contest (which ended on February 28, 2006), viewers attempted to utter the most creative "Booyah", with the winner to be featured live on Mad Money.

Cameos

Cramer appeared, as himself, in two episodes of the TV series, Arrested Development, sealing his entry into American pop culture. He appeared to first announce that he had upgraded Bluth Company stock to a "Don't Buy" from a "Triple Sell", and then to say that the stock was not a "Don't Buy" anymore, but a "Risky". Cramer has also appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly, offering basic investment advice. He also had a very energetic appearance on a summertime episode of Late Night With Conan O'Brien. He also appeared on one of the first episodes of The Colbert Report. And most recently, he appeared on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Cramer will be appearing on the ABC late night show, Jimmy Kimmel Live, on May 22, 2006.

60 Minutes Interview

On November 13th, 2005, Dan Rather did a sit-down interview with Cramer on 60 Minutes. Among the topics of discussion were Cramer's past at his fund (including footage of Cramer trading during the 90s at his New York offices), his violent temper while at the fund, and what finally led him to come to his senses and "calm down" (to the extent that Cramer can ever be considered relaxed). Footage of Cramer at his family home with his daughters and wife was also included. On November 15th, 2005, Jim mentioned on his program that he received hundreds and hundreds of e-mails after his 60 Minutes interview.

Note that this report was taped before Cramer's radio show, Smart Money with Jim Cramer, moved to WOR and became syndicated under the CBS Radio banner.

External links

1. TheStreet.com, Cramer's "Mad Money" Recaps
2. madmoneyaddict.com, The Street's searchable database of "Mad Money" picks
3. CramersMadMoney.com - Forum discusses Mad Money show
4. Blog listing Cramer's Bull and Bear picks Blog listing Cramer's Bull and Bear picks
5. Definition of "booyah" Wall Street Glossary
6. CBS - 60 Minutes Sunday Transcript of Cramer's 60 Minutes interview
7. Beat Jim Cramer! - Website aims to predict Cramer's stock recommendations before he announces them
8. Investing W/Jim Cramer -Blog Analyzing Cramer's picks, Providing Investment Strategies
9. Quicktime Video of Jim Cramer's Signature "Lighting Round" on MAD MONEY (6MB)
10. Mad Money Machine at MadMoneyMachine.com - Blog and Podcast that reviews Jim Cramer's stock picks and other fun investment topics
11. Mad Money Recap - Recap of nightly show stock picks and comments
12. The Cramer Report - Provides a full summary of the stocks mentioned on Jim Cramer's "Mad Money" show.

References

1. MSN Money - CNBC TV: Investing Mad Money
2. SquawkBlog
3. Mad Money Stock Picking Challenge