The day I bought INTEL it dropped 40 points. It will never come back as long as I own it (and I never plan to sell).

Cramer is a mad man! He was just recommending AAPL and RIMM as buys a very few weeks ago. Now he is yelling sell, sell, sell. List to this idiot and lose a ton of money. His winners don't make up for his overwhelming losers.

Cramer has lost touch with reality. Too many shows.His advice is no longer for the common investor. He throws around buys and sells as if we have a unlimited pot of cash like some mutual fund manager. He should go home get some sleep and rethink his programs.

Apple didn't do so well ??? ? ? ?? Huh? Wha? They had their best quarter EVER. In the history of the company.

Jim, you are a smart guy, you talk to smart people all the time. Here is something for you to chew on. The average person has dealt with inflation way over the announced rare of inflation while their wages have fallen or at best remained flat. 2.6% inflation? You have to be kidding me. Just take health care, heating oil, gas, electricity , food , etc etc. People cannot pay for things when inflation is 10-15% a year over 8 years but their wages are flat. This is what is going on. Its not SUBPRIME, that is a scapegoat. They are just the first dominoes to fall. This is widespread across many income classes and I see it clearly in my CPA business. Id love to talk with you for 10 minutes to explain this which is totally ignored by the media.

In the 1970s from 1976-1984 the COLA increases in Social security were 75% over that period. If you made 10k in 76 you were getting 17.5k in 84. Similarly pensions, and job incomes were inflated as well. By the end of the inflation cycle people had higher incomes to pay off their (mostly) fixed debts. This is how we got out of this mess. Now in the last 8 years COLA has bee 25% total. This is way below how high prices have gone for the average person. In our town heating oil is up 200% plus in 8 years, gas has doubled, food is way up so people just buy less as they have to, health care costs for my small business are up 150-200%, real estate taxes up 86%. Needless to say most people have not doubled their incomes and income growth really lags inflation.

We also have other bogus stats like retail sales that include the sale of gasoline at higher prices . At least COSTCO showed you their piece in their report.

The average guy is hurting, all the way up to the upper middle class.

I cannot believe noone stands up there on TV and says INFLATION IS NOT 2.6% YOU FOOLS!!!! Jeeez and the Govt has the nerve to increase medicare premiums for Social security 5+% while telling them that!

I give up , I really think noone gets "it" what is really going on..

Marty in CT

Doug McIntyrte
Doug
You are right about bad lungs... Look, I dont know of any one single super rich dude like Billy Gates or Mr Chambers of Cisco making a donation or starting a foundation to educate the international smokers to stop smoking or at least get lost smoking so not to bother the innocent bystanders in the bazaars or whatnots. I dont think I would ever want to travel through those international crowds out there. I would suffocate in heavy plumes of second hand smoke out there. I would rather see the nature and countrysides instead of inner cities where cigarette smokers contribute considerably to the street level air pollution. You see, not one leader doing anything about the powerless who are suffering the excessive air pollution generated by harebrained smokers gone amok thinking they possess the demonic liberties of lighting a cigarette anywhere they damn please. Not one single leader from America here. We had helped people in natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, genocides, etc but nothing about educating smokers to at least pay respect to other bypassers who do not smoke. I dont care about smokers' health as long as they manage to get lost somwhere where they cant do any harm to others except to Mother Earth which is already littered with quadrillions of cigarette butts....

Just stay healthy eat right exercise, etc and Medicare will go down in premiums too many people are too idiotic about health.... Govenrment is not gonna play nanny on us. We are pretty basically left on our own devices which mean we gotta tell eachother to quit smoking, start exercising, learn more , etc. Governemnt is only good for killing enemies, building highways, doling out checks ans busting bad dudes, to name a few. Government can be out of control if we stay ignoant feeble minded mold licking idiots....

Doug
You are right about bad lungs... Look, I dont know of any one single super rich dude like Billy Gates or Mr Chambers of Cisco making a donation or starting a foundation to educate the international smokers to stop smoking or at least get lost smoking so not to bother the innocent bystanders in the bazaars or whatnots. I dont think I would ever want to travel through those international crowds out there. I would suffocate in heavy plumes of second hand smoke out there. I would rather see the nature and countrysides instead of inner cities where cigarette smokers contribute considerably to the street level air pollution. You see, not one leader doing anything about the powerless who are suffering the excessive air pollution generated by harebrained smokers gone amok thinking they possess the demonic liberties of lighting a cigarette anywhere they damn please. Not one single leader from America here. We had helped people in natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, genocides, etc but nothing about educating smokers to at least pay respect to other bypassers who do not smoke. I dont care about smokers' health as long as they manage to get lost somwhere where they cant do any harm to others except to Mother Earth which is already littered with quadrillions of cigarette butts....

America is so full of parpazzi hounding rich and famous phoney people so most of our ignorant feeble minded mold licking idiots can amuse themselves watching them on TV . We are not really concerned with ripoffs of the Governemnt of Wall Street or credit card issuers. We just bitchin about it and that is it. Yeah we are outta control mold licking feeble minded idiots....

Cramer makes perfect sense to me.
What he's really saying is quote: That the time for big surprises with tech is over!

eBay stock and others have faultered these last years. Their glory days are gone. Their stock price is down...down...down....

These are mature companies with decent earnings That now must pay decent DIVIDENDS to keep shareholders happy, or they will sell.

I am with Cramer on this one. A good bump in price and I will sell all eBay holdings.

Marty.

Brilliant.

Everyone go back and read Marty's post.

I personally lost money on Cramer's recommendation to buy American Standard months ago. Subsequently, I decided to do a little experiment and track the performance of his recommendations as a whole over a long period of time. For the period of time I tracked, I discovered that on average, his recommendations lost money. He's no better than throwing darts.

JIM CRAMER
IF YOU EVER HAD IT, YOU AIN'T GOT IT NOW.CHECK ON ALL YOUR RECENT PAST PLUGS. DON'T LOSE YOUR TV JOB. YELL A LITTLE LESS. IT COULD MEAN BETTER RECOMMENDATIONS.ON SECOND THOUGHT, I DOUBT IF ANYTHING WOULD HELP IMPROVE YOUR SCORE.
BILL

The time to buy tech is now, when all the risky money is rotating to the financials and retailers trying to catch a bottom. The dust will settle nine moths from now and we realize all these rate cuts are to bail out the banks and not about this false recession. The smart money will move back to tech.

AAPL is a screaming buy. The web in the palm of you hand is a huge secular play. Smart T.V. is another.

People in America are over fed, over loved, and undercapitalized. We spend far too much money on ridiculous things we don't need than on actually saving money. Every single person who posts on this blog would've screamed bloody murder if congress had enacted a gas tax back in the 70s designed to promote the development of green energies. When the price of gas declined in the 80s and 90s goofy Americans went out and bought SUVs ensuring our dependence on foreign oil for years to come. As a nation, with a tiny bit of effort, we could bring the Middle East to its knees if we just would properly inflate our tires but we can't be bothered. We've done more to keep Chavez, Putin, and the Saudi Royal Family in power than any propoganda they've ever produced. Most folks took out home equity loans not for home improvements but to do something stupid like fly off to Hawaii or buy a new car. Plenty of opportunity exists in America. Look at how deep we are in debt; look at how deep our government is in debt. Can you see the similarities? Look in the mirror. Prices are always going to rise. Cramer didn't invent the SIV crisis on Wall Street and without it the markets would've been cruising along. In France we have a trader in who lost $7 billion and we have supposedly intelligent investment bankers, masters of the universe, who've have cost us tens of billions, probably hundreds of billions through their greed. Think they'll go to jail? He will they won't. INC = I'm never convicted.

And look at this stimulus package that sends $150 billion to us to stimulate the economy. How much has the war cost? $500-600 billion? How much will it cost in the end? Talk about stimulating the economy. The original welfare (warfare) mothers reside in the Pentagon.

How about this for a concept. Save some cash, get off of the easy credit, educate your kids, and stop driving so much. Finally, send that damn check back to the govt. and tell them to apply it to the debt unless of course you want your next credit card to be issued by the Bank of Dubai.

I've seen the enemy and he is us.

Beltway Greg

Scott Cacciatore on Apple and Google.

What is Cramer talking about in this article?? He starts the article saying that Apple didnt do well. I am assuming he means do well in their earnings. I am not sure if Cramer even saw their earnings. They blew past earnings estimates for the 4th quarter of 2007. They displayed on of the best earnings reports of all companies for the 4th quarter of 2007. Every Apple store you went into during the holiday season was jam packed full of customers with waits exceeding one hour. Sales of the Ipod, the Mac, and IPhone are all surging. Yes they lowered their forecasts for the first quarter by .12 cents but they still expect to make a profit of around .85 cents. They are not involved in any credit or mortgage issues. They are a company that is on the rise especially with their IPhone and Macbook sales starting to gain momentum. Yes their stock has come down from the highs along with the rest of the market, but long term this looks like a very strong stock and a stock you would want to own.

As far as Google stock (goog) again I have no idea what Cramer is talking about. He says that the stock is floundering. Yes, he is partly correct because Google is trading about 30% lower then it was a few months ago, BUT the stock is still trading at over 11% higher then it was trading at this time last year. I think alot of us would be happy with 11% profit in our money in one year, especially in a year which say the economy struggle on so many levels. The entire market has sold off the past few months and google is just another one of the stocks that sold off with the market. However, the company is very strong. Their advertising revenues keep increasing while rival Yahoo's advertising revenues keep decreasing. Yahoo actually reported their 8th straight quarter of lower profits this quarter. Google is on very solid ground and when the economy begins its upswing stocks like google will lead the way in the market. Cramer thinks a stock which has increased 11% this year and is trading over 550 is floundering. If he thinks this then he must think almost every stock out their is floundering.

Scott Cacciatore is bullish on Apple and Google stock.

Looks like it's time to short the market!

How many econ majors are out there? If so, you know that everyone has access to the fundamentals, so the market is a random walk, and economists do not believe in technical analysis (for every ship at the bottom of the ocean, there are lots of "charts"). So, therefore, Cramer is no better than throwing darts at the IBD and picking 20 of your favorite stocks! (I think Cramer knows this, too... the jig is up!)