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    DonJ
    Oct 13 09:41 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    Jason,
    I agree with you 100%. I've been saying the same thing to everyone that I know. It's almost like a conspiracy with Cramer. He must be working for the institutional investors, telling everyone to sell, sell, sell, while they buy, buy, buy at ridiculously low prices. When Cramer tells everyone to sell a stock, I know I've got a good buy opportunity coming up. If NBC were smart, they'd take Cramer off the air.     Reply
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    User 196410
    Oct 13 09:29 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    By "all of your years of experience" I gather that you are referring to your four years referred to in your bio. Maybe your suggesting that the market is back is a sign that we still have a long way to go down from here.

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    Richard Woon
    Oct 13 09:22 PM
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    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    After the socialist $700B bailout, I see that we are truly turning into the United States of Ameristan. Comrade Paulson should bring in the secret police to silence Cramer then burn should burn the books too...particularly the one's that oppose "Buy & Hold" dogma.

    I am joking of course. I don't mean to label you but I know that speech should be countered with more speech and never with censorship.     Reply
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    Fish man
    Oct 13 09:17 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    We will have to see who the limons are. Keep stoking the fire with consumerism. Betting on it to continue in such conditions as we see unraveling is fool hardy. Cramer is right. The corporate news media must be shocked to here the truth. But lets keep drinking the cool aid. I don't see any cliff. I do not see wives needing every cosmetic; bottled or surgery; nor do I see children having anything they coould want by merely nagging mom. I do not see parents that say yes everytime something new is needed.
    People are broke due to the value of their houses going down. Savings are a thing that is also considered foolish. They hope to have instant everything. Why shouldn't they get it from the stock market. Restraint to fully addicted consumers can only be considered blasphemy. Why can't we borrow today to get everything I want today. Isn't this what we model to our children. Of course Cramer is an idiot, or is he? I know Bush has our best in mind. He will save us.     Reply
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    johngonole
    Oct 13 09:04 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    I'm not Cramer fan. However with the market turmoil I tuned him in last two weeks. I listened to him day after day try to calm people down. I think the slow bleed that all the sudden quickly accelerated downward un-nerved him. If I were him I would never hype stocks and the market so much in the first place but I also think that he has a responsibility to tell people to sell if he really thinks its a good idea. I for one did liquidate the day after his call. I myself had had enough. I held on only to SLV, WLP, VLO, and JNJ. I missed buying back in at the low. It went up so damn quick. Still the market on the way down and now on the way back up has been totally trading on emotion not the fundementals. In the 10 years I've been investing I've never seen anything like the last month. I still don't trust the market it has turned into a manic depressent. I think his call made things worse but things were already pretty bad. I myself felt as he did. It wasn't individual investors panicking it was the professionals. He sensed that things could keep going down so he made the call. His call is still right by the way unless the market continues to explode upward.

    Don't listen to me or Cramer make your own decisions. I'm just saying I can completely understand why he said to sell out. By the way since buy and hold has become the mantra the market has taken advantage of it (just like the idea that housing can never go down) and has sold all kinds of crap to the mutual funds. Market has gone no where in 10 years. This is actually the first up day in a really long time.

    I may buy back in once the market calms down.     Reply
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    joe1
    Oct 13 07:43 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    in short. that WAS pathetic journalism on Cramer's part.
    Hey thats how dictatorships happen. Stupid lemmings take the king for what he says. In short investors. The single biggest skill you must learn is critical thinking. Think on your own not what Cramer says. Who tells you things in print or tv. Question the motive. . Always follow the money. And for this guy
    www.cnbc.com/id/271629... Now look who he works for. .. Hmmm. What a joke. Mr. Mason. You want credibility?? Get a comment board so we can say you dont know what your talking about. Have some balls!! Perhaps you have the knee pads on in the parking lot with JC..
    Cramer was wrong. Period!! End of discussion!!     Reply
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    User 225768
    Oct 13 07:38 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    look who's talking, mr. wet behind the ears. you must be one of those stupid financial experts who knows nothing about the financial system and did not see the current crisis coming. and now you're calling for someone to get off the air when they have the balls to tell people to save their savings? if you had any intelligence (instead of parroting basic investing advice) and knowledge of history, you should know that the current global financial crisis is of serious concern. even if you could say that the market is going to recover someday, you cannot fault someone for advising the regular joe's to take money that they'll need in the immediate future out of the market.

    it's legitimate advice given the current state of the global financial crisis. instead of pretending you know what the heck you're doing by criticizing someone who has more intelligence, experience and guts than you, why don't you go back to school and try to learn a few more thing about the Great Depression before you go spouting your drivel...     Reply
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    wadexyz
    Oct 13 07:22 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    Completely retarded logic. Blaming Cramer for the stock crash is like blaming your ugly face on your parents. Well, maybe that does hold water.... Reply
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    Goethe
    Oct 13 06:52 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    The most surprising thing is that Jim Cramer still gives stock advice after being found out to be a front runner. The fact that he is not wearing an orange jumpsuit for real galls me. Reply
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    jstratt
    Oct 13 06:38 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    I dont like to but I must disagree.

    The inability to restrain emotions is likely what doomed him as a hedge fund manager. If he was any good he would still be at it. That said, he is able to convey some logic and some of his ideas are worthy of consideration. I thought he should have been reprimanded when he had his tantrum about the Federal Reserve.

    With the Today Show call you should learn a lesson. The bottom is near when some people are no longer able to handle stocks anymore. I considered Cramers rant as a sign the bottom was near. He has alot of knowledge, but not the emotional makeup to manage a portfolio or probably anything else.     Reply
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    M. J. Docl
    Oct 13 06:09 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    Cramer is the most visible of all the talking heads and like all of them they have opinions not revealed truth on their side or in their head. No one is forced to act on his "rants' and his approach may actually be of assistance to a certain stratum of investors. I have actually moved in the opposite direction from his reco believing the herd would follow his recommendation.
    Does he have a moral or civic duty to support the efforts of government officials I don't beleive he does. At minimum count on his opinions to be consistent with what he actually beleives as pointed out above he yelled as loud about getting into Apple as he did about getting out.     Reply
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    EnforceTheLa
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    Oct 13 05:39 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    Cramer certainly was reckless. So many people "heard" what the author did, that Cramer had to repeatedly clarify.

    Like it or not, he has a following, and it has increased over the years. He needs to act more responsibly in "unprecedented&qu... times. While he is right that one should have 3 to 5 years spending needs in liquid funds, it was terrible to remind folks of this -- WITHOUT CLARIFICATION -- when the market was down sharply for several days straight.

    It was clear that most of the sell-off was irrational -- hedge funds and even CEOs selling because of margin calls.

    Especially since he was on the TODAY show, he should have mentioned the almost certainty of a bounce (selling half now, half on the bounce). Likewise, many Blue Chips, or low/no debt shares were yielding 4% or better. For those that didn't need their cash for over a year, buying these shares (or exchanging them for riskier/no yield stuff) should have been discussed.

    Lastly, folks could have done what I did as part of my "in case of panic" plan -- exchanging individual shares for leveraged ETFs like DDM, UXI, UGI, DIG, USD, ROM.

    (Sell $30k worth of IBM, GE, XOM, Intel, Microsoft, P&G, buy $15k worth of the respective etfs of which they are the major components. You would raise $15k in cash, and because the etfs move 2x the value of their component companies, still be holding the same amount of stock.)

    The latter strategy might be a little sophisticated for TODAY show watchers, but those folks that did their homework be up 20% today, plus have cash in the bank.     Reply
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    John Egan
    Oct 13 05:31 PM
    Market Performance During Past Recessions [view article]
    The Bush administration's practice is to treat the American public as children. Don't tell us about the bogey-man, the pedophiliac next door, or the fact that Dad just lost his job. Spin! Spin! Spin! .. Personally, I find it offensive and I'll be glad to have a new President in January.

    GOP for Obama.

    jegan ;-)     Reply
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    User 17459
    Oct 13 05:20 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    only problem is lack of objectivity in feeling cramer should be suspended. it is more proper to just call him wrong.
    i mean, the guy is the most popular talking head by a long shot. just look at seeking alpha, articles about cramer dominate. it is easy to be jealous and lose objectivity.
    for instance, if cramer told the author of this article to get out of aapl at some point he also told him to get back into aapl. remember aapl has been one of cramers four horsemen.     Reply
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    SocialD
    Oct 13 05:20 PM
    Why Cramer Should Be Suspended [view article]
    I'm not surprised that Cramer says to sell on a non-investment show and then urges people to buy on his show. If he believed what he says, he would say the exact same thing on his 'Mad Money' show. Since the market was up so much today, I fully expect Cramer to call another bull market like he did on July 30, 2008 (when the Dow was 2500 points higher).

    Cramer has been notoriously wrong in his calls on the bottom of the stock market and the bottom of the housing market. However, I suspect Cramers philosophy is to call a new bottom every 5% to 10% and eventually he will be correct. Why couldn't Cramer have told people to get out when he last called the bottom? People would have been better off then than now.     Reply
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