TheStreet.com's Jim Cramer says the scope of this crisis needs to be recognized. The real deal is upon us. The October session that we always seem to get, the one that looks like we need intraday Fed meetings and lifelines to banks and a flood of liquidity and ... oops, we've already done that!
Yep. So often we have had the real hideous looks, only at the last minute to have the darned defeat we need to start over be defeated by some optimistic yahoos who come out of the woodwork and say, "buy, buy, buy!"
I don't want it to happen this time. We have to have some recognition that Ford (NYSE: F) (Cramer's Take) and GM (NYSE: GM) (Cramer's Take) and Chrysler matter and that they are all teetering, that the Boeing (NYSE: BA) (Cramer's Take) strike is going to soon shut down the part of American manufacturing that is not auto and that housing took a step down last month of unfathomable proportions. If you don't believe me, go read the Ryland (NYSE: RYL) (Cramer's Take) release: cancellations spiked up again! We will not hold those July lows that now make the HGX housing sector index run up look like a total ploy to make us feel better. When are Horton (NYSE: DHI) (Cramer's Take) and Pulte (NYSE: PHM) (Cramer's Take) going to merge anyway!
Every time we get an open, every time, the sellers fade, the buyers come in, the market rallies by 10 and we avoid the washout and the capitulation. I figure it will be no different this time because there will be plenty of people who need to support this market here. Maybe people who say, "It is way overdone." Like the recession that I want to see happen already, I want to see us get way overdone before I get too excited.
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Jim Cramer is a director and co-founder of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. At the time of publication, Cramer had no positions in the stocks mentioned.











Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-24-2008 @ 11:10AM
beachpaul said...
Well, boys, and you Mr. Cramer, here it comes, the big one. I told a friend of mine, who toils in the canyons of lower Manhattan, that last Monday the market would drop 1,000 points. He called and I admitted I was wrong. It was going to take a week.I hope you boys have sold your imac stock. Gravity is calling. It is harder to get up in the morning as you get older, you don't run as fast as you used to. Me, I'm going to drive my yellow, '74 VW convertible, down to the end of my driveway and take my dog for a walk on the beach. I missed the great runup in Job land because I cashed out all my stocks in 2007. I sold our investment properties this past spring. I even cashed in my whole life policy with Met. Selling Stuyvesant Town was a deadly sin, a ghost that will torment. All I have left is my family, my "shack on the shore", the one with the million dollar view, some lobster pots, my dog boo, and, oh, that co-op we got approved for by the board in NYC last night, I guess we can close on it now. It will make a great home my pre-CBS Strat. As a professor at Babson once said," Stocks are worth 9-12 times earnings. Twelve if they are doing well, nine if they are doing not so well." It is gravity. It gets everyone, everything.
10-24-2008 @ 3:03PM
phyllis rockower said...
Cramer- you are the only one telling it like it is. I love listenting to your show every night. Now i will read your blog also.
I am a real estate investor and have been through lots of up and down markets. I guess i am smarter than Alan Greenspan because i was not shocked. i saw this coming and sold all real estate in 2005. i bitched all the way about the lack of action by the fed to curb the crap going on.
Even though i am not a wall street person, i listen to what you say because wall street and main street are intertwined and go back and forth affecting each other. So i have to know what is going on in the economy and wall street to make real estate decisions.
Thanks for the "transparency".
1-28-2009 @ 1:12PM
Sue Cummings said...
Can we have a do-over for Lehman Bros.?
I think the subprime loan was a weapon of mass destruction.
Are there any programmers writing programs to shorten the time span it takes to create a database of all failed mortgages that were sold to the banker next door?
A great man, Joseph Veach Noble, once told me, "There are no shortcuts."
10-26-2008 @ 1:28AM
ynot said...
"Gird your loins," Biden says. "We're gonna win with your help, God willing, we're gonna win, but this is not gonna be an easy ride. This president, the next president, is gonna be left with the most significant task. It's like cleaning the Augean stables, man. This is more than just, this is more than – think about it, literally, think about it – this is more than just a capital crisis, this is more than just markets. This is a systemic problem we have with this economy."
10-26-2008 @ 9:52PM
BDC said...
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