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Jim Cramer on Bear Sterns

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Industry Observer

Anyone remember the outcry from the real estate industry about Jim Cramer's comments on the housing market back in September?

Here's a link to Ricardo Bueno's Active Rain blog with the video, to refresh your memory.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/219755/Jim-Cramer-says-Don

Well, if you found that exciting, you just have to watch this clip from March 11 of Jim discussing Bear  Sterns.  :-)

 

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Cheryl Johnson

 



 

 

Ron Tarvin
Residential, Investment properties, rehab projects, property management, luxury homes, new construction! - Katy, TX
Broker, Katy, Houston, Cypress 77450,77494,77095

Oops! 

Just goes to show ya...

I was watching Glenn Beck last night and they were hashing out the fact that the bailouts do not allow the market to reset on their own and thus it prolongs the recession.  

Mar 18, 2008 03:14 AM
Dave Woodson
Dave Woodson - Chesterton, IN
Not the Average Agent

There is a great podcast where the guy who started it by showing that Cramer does not know what he is talkiing about, check out Mad Money Machine

Dave Woodson

Mar 18, 2008 03:16 AM
Vickie Nagy
Coldwell Banker Residential Real Estate - Palm Springs, CA
Vickie Jean the Palm Springs Condo Queen

Looks like Jim Cramer has lot a TON of credibility in the last week. When the clip started I was just thinking that I'd love to have his vehement positive defense of the state of the housing mrket. By I later realized that his vocal support could be a very bad thing at this time. Wow, how could he have missed that call so badly?

Mar 18, 2008 03:17 AM
Steve Scheer
Realty Oasis - Metro Brokers - Highlands Ranch, CO
Highlands Ranch Real Estate - Denver Real Estate
John Stewart did a hilarious piece on this last night.  If it re-runs today, try to catch it. 
Mar 18, 2008 04:08 AM
Missy Caulk
Missy Caulk TEAM - Ann Arbor, MI
Savvy Realtor - Ann Arbor Real Estate
I saw it this morning on Fox, oh my what a big mistake. I bet people that have money there are not too happy.
Mar 18, 2008 06:54 AM
No Longer Active
Real Estate - Fallon, MT

Just what we need... another federal bail out!   Let the financial scam artists sink.....

 

Mar 18, 2008 07:22 AM
Miriam Bernstei
Rochester, NY
Thanks for shraing that.  It would make me smile if it weren't so tragic for a lot of people.  Does that mean we should do the absolute oposite of what he says?  Would that work?  Oops is right.
Mar 18, 2008 08:32 AM
Mike Jaquish
Realty Arts - Cary, NC
919-880-2769 Cary, NC, Real Estate

Cheryl,

LOL

I linked your post to Richard Bueno's post.

This is a pretty high-profile fumble by the boy wonder...

Mar 18, 2008 09:35 AM
Ken Montville
RE/MAX United Real Estate - College Park, MD
The MD Suburbs of DC

Good ol' Jim.

Hey, the guy's an entertainer. That's why they have all those disclaimers all over is show and when he makes guest shots on other CNBC shows.

It just goes to show that even with a ton of "experience" and "street smarts" even the gurus make mistakes.  Jim just happens to make more than some.

 Great clip!

Mar 18, 2008 12:26 PM
Joseph Grabowski
Keller Williams Preferred Real Estate - Yardley, PA
REALTOR - 4saleinbucks.com

Do any of you have a clue? Have you watched the entire thing? Have you been following it ALL? And not just these 2 clips. A day or 2 before that clip above, Jim stated COMMON STOCK of Bear Stearns is GARBAGE. I was sitting there watching it as it aired on CNBC.

What Jim was referring to was if people who had money in accounts at Bears Stearns, that their money would be safe, which it still is. Whatever money you had in an account (just like a savings account) is insured. AND Jim was correct about a takeover. Don't you recall JP Morgan bailing them out?

In fact, here is the clip Jim Cramer did about Bear Stearns & the FED. back in AUGUST 2007, stating things were bad. http://youtube.com/watch?v=rOVXh4xM-Ww

 

 

 

 

Mar 25, 2008 07:22 AM
Cheryl Johnson
Highland Park, CA

Thank you, Joseph, for posting that!!   No I hadn't seen it.

And for what it's worth, and some agents here will disagree, but I think if you listen to Jim Cramer's comments about the housing market made back in September ... and compare them to where we are right now in the housing market .... I think he wasn't too far off...

And when I orginally posted this, I was kinda hoping someone would take the thread in that direction.  :-)

Mar 25, 2008 01:00 PM
Anonymous
insider

Jim Cramer is a scam artist.  He is a pawn for insider traders and bases his investing advice on personal incentives to bolster the value of his own portfolio.  All of you "average" investors out there who listen to him are idiots and have no idea how the street actually operates.  It operates on the basis that individuals, like Cramer, are trying to make a buck and will do whatever and say whatever in order to make money.

Jun 23, 2008 05:46 PM
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