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We keep waiting for the bust, the gigantic rollover of oil companies that just plain collapse under their own weight and the $50 price that you get for West Texas Intermediate. It hasn't happened. We keep waiting for the junk bond market that is riddled with $200 billion in oil and gas paper to be crushed by defaults and restructurings. It hasn't been. In fact, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bd, the high-yield exchange-traded fund that includes a lot of this suspect paper, is pretty much unchanged for the last three years and has enjoyed a sustained rally...

It's over: whether due to the complete domination of centrally-planned markets by a few central banks, whether as a result of HFTs forcing out all human traders and investors, whether due to volatility plunging to record lows and complacency at record highs, whether viewers simply aren't impressed by the new young, female faces that are increasingly taking over the primetime financial TV slots, because people are tired of Cramer's endless "caffeine" high and endless attempts to justify a record disconnect between manipulated record high "markets" and a stagnant economy in which some 53 million workers are "freelancers", or simply because...

Cramer discusses companies involved in Permian basin oil output whose numbers came in today at 2.75 million barrels a day

"Look no further than the multi-scorned Alcoa which came on 'Mad Money' just last night and talked about turns in aerospace, autos, non-residential construction and trucks. Those are all the needle movers in an economy for heaven's sake and Alcoa's Klaus Kleinfeld said they are all trending higher. Pow, bears, right in the kisser." Also developments suggest weakness in stocks such as CBS and Time Warner were more to do with hedge fund liquidations that any fundamental headwinds. In addition, Cramer says the money flow into bonds appears to be more about money fleeing Russia and not a referendum on...

On Meet the Press Sunday, CNBC host Jim Cramer said that those pushing amnesty for tens of millions of illegal aliens simply don't care about American workers. Cramer stunned the political establishment by saying out loud what the elites and their donors want to censor -- that amnesty would destroy our workers and hurt our economy. By John Urban | Top Right NewsCramer, a lifelong Democrat, was responding to Obama economic adviser Gene Sperling's assertion that "immigration reform" would fix the nation's job problems, hitting the Democrat party in particular, but making a much larger point. "David, don't you find it interesting that...

<p>There's a trend underway in the market and Cramer doesn't like it.</p> <p>Although the Dow Jones and S&P only closed modestly lower, it's what moved the market that concerns Cramer.</p> <p>"Cyclicals, especially the oils were laid to waste on Wednesday, while consumer product stocks roared higher," Cramer noted.</p>

wonder if CNBC will finally cancel the ludicrous Jim "truth" Cramer campaign once this news breaks. We doubt it - ... SEC Charges Financial Media Company and Executives Involved in Accounting Fraud. Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2012 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged a digital financial media company and three executives for their roles in an accounting fraud that artificially inflated company revenues and misstated operating income to investors. ... The SEC alleges that TheStreet Inc., which operates the website TheStreet.com, filed false financial reports throughout 2008 by reporting revenue from fraudulent transactions at a subsidiary it had...

Public Service Commissioner Kevin Cramer (R) could upset his party-backed opponent in the Tuesday primary for North Dakota’s open at-large seat, a new poll suggested. Cramer led fellow Public Service Commissioner Brian Kalk, 60 percent to 21 percent with 19 percent undecided, in a Mason-Dixon poll sponsored by the local Valley News Live/KFYR-TV. The poll surveyed 625 likely voters from June 4 to 6. It had a margin of error of 4 percent.

New NBC Meme -- Goood news -- The horrible economy and unemployment rate are not the fault of Obama or his policies. It's Europe's fault -- totally! This morning on the NBC Today Show, they trotted out their own on air "Talent", Jim Cramer of MAD Money, to tell us all that the bad economy has nothing to do with our government or its policies. Instead, we are totally beholden to Europe. Well excuse me, but when did former hedge fund manager Jim Cramer become a global economist? You could almost see the Obama bumper sticker on his shiny forhead!...

The ostensible purpose of gun control legislation is to reduce firearm deaths and injuries. The restriction of access to firearms will make criminals unable to use guns to shoot people. Gun control laws will also reduce the number of accidental shootings. Those are the desired effects, at least in theory. It is important, however, for conscientious policymakers to consider not only the stated goals of gun control regulations, but the actual results that they produce. What would be the effect of depriving ordinary, law-abiding citizens from keeping arms for self-defense? One result seems certain: the law-abiding would be at a...

“There is no bubble in gold,” Cramer declared on Wednesday. “It is a genuine multiyear rally.” He thinks the move in gold is “just beginning,” and he wants investors to own some.

Excerpt to middle of article... Meanwhile, President Obama showed "arrogance" on his part when he announced plans to install a network of high-speed railways without talking to the railroad companies first, Cramer charged. "I just think the business and the president just don't speak enough," he said. "It's really a shame."

If Cramer is right about a sell-off coming early on Thursday, then that could be “your dream come true” to buy gold. See, according to US Global Investors—“the best source on gold that I know of,” Cramer said—the gold stocks have jumped an average of 8.34% each September for the past 17 years, making right now a great time to buy in. Investors always want at least some gold exposure in their portfolios, as it protects against inflation and overall market instability. But there’s another reason that Cramer’s bullish on the precious metal right now: scarcity. Most of the world’s...

Back in January, when CNBC host Jim Cramer talked up the chances of “a gigantic rally” should Scott Brown win the Massachusetts Senate race, IBD’s Capital Hill poured some cold water on the idea with a post that, in retrospect, seems pretty much on target:

I heard it five times this week, twice Tuesday in a Wall Street bar, two times during the day chatting with investors and then last night at dinner with a pal, an old pro trader from down the block. All said the same word, as if programmed, like pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The word? Malaise. All of the people who used this term were older, friends from the days of trading, wizened veterans of other terrible markets and of course, people who came of age during the Jimmy Carter years, where the unlamented president talked about...

I heard it five times this week, twice Tuesday in a Wall Street bar, two times during the day chatting with investors and then last night at dinner with a pal, an old pro trader from down the block. All said the same word, as if programmed, like pod people in Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The word? Malaise.

CRAMER: If You Don't Get A Lehman Brothers II In Europe In 48 Hours, Financial Stocks Will Go Up Joe Weisenthal May. 19, 2010, 2:41 PM Image: CNBC He just said to to Amanda Drury during his STOP TRADING segment. "The market is prepared for Lehman II... and if you don't get a Lehman II, and all you get is a slowdown, our stocks may not be so horrible." He specifically cited a 48-hour window for this to happen. Otherwise, it's time to buy the financial stocks. As for the risk from financial regulation, Jim Cramer says that's over. Dodd...

When the mentality toward the market becomes negative, Cramer said during Monday’s Mad Money, there is nothing you can do to change it. But you can try and make some money. Buying gold is not only the best play on market negativity today, Cramer explained, it is your insurance against economic chaos and inflation. Here are six reasons why you should buy gold right now: Dependability: Expected to climb to $2,000 an ounce, Cramer said the precious metal tends to rise when other currencies fall. Can’t Be Copied: As the commercial says, “Central banks are printing money like mad.” That’s...

Any time Erin Burnett tells a guest "You will not be back, you have to be more polite than that" you know the "guest" is telling the truth, the one commodity rarely if ever discussed on General Electric's circus station. Enter (or rather, exit) R&R Consulting's Sylvain Raynes, a structured finance expert, who at 3:10 into the clip takes on what he calls the "public relations officers" for Goldman, and asks "is it all right if I am a little critical?" Apparently the answer is no. First, Sylvain completely destroys Cramer's false "breaking news" about Goldman being long Abacus... And...

While a vote on health care reform legislation appears to be imminent, should it pass it could have broader economic implications, even if the bill itself won't take effect for some time. As CNBC "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer predicted - if it passes, get ready to see a sell-off on Wall Street. Cramer appeared on CNBC's March 18 "The Kudlow Report," with his broadcast partner Larry Kudlow. Kudlow asked Cramer to elaborate on his theory ObamaCare could send the financial markets reeling or "topple the stock market," as Kudlow described it. "First, it is the single biggest impediment to...