Dylan Matthews, guesting at Ezra’s place, provides this handy dandy chart to track Jim Cramer’s predictions on the Dow: He concludes, Actually, I’ll give Cramer some props. With the small exceptions of Boeing, GM, and IBM, the market tends to do the reverse of what he anticipates. ...

Jon Stewart is on a tear these days, taking on the wild world of financial punditry one shouty bald guy at a time. This episode is dedicated to CNBC’s Jim Cramer, who, try as he may to deny it, just seemed to have a thing for Bear Stearns stock—mere days before the whole company tanked. ...

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...for Jim Cramer: First, with your right hand firmly grip your left ear. Next, with your left hand get a good grip on your right ear. Now pull your head out of your ass. Recently Cramer experienced something of an......

Filed under: Earnings reports, Conventions and conferences, Economic data, Federal Reserve After testifying before a Senate committee about AIG (NYSE: AIG) last week, the Fed's Ben Bernanke participates in a Council of Foreign Relations event Monday evening. Economic data due to be released this wee...

In today's Pot Calling the Kettle Black Moment, Bill Maher thinks CNBC's Jim Cramer isn't helping by suggesting that President Barack Obama is Lenin. This coming from a man who built an entire weekly television program on HBO savagely attacking George W. Bush and anyone associated with his Administr...

Another lost day for The Garlic ... We'll leave with, probably, the best post of the day. Perhaps, you're one of the less-than-handful that hasn't seen, heard, of been told about the Jon Stewart riff on CNBC (and his follow-up comments on Letterman ) . Will Bunch of Attytood was just as impressed, b...

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cCNBC Gives Financial AdviceDaily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri MartinPolitical HumorJoke of the Day Jon Stewart skewers CNBC, Rick Santelli, Cramer et. al on his "Daily Show" last night.... Presented By: Kingdom of the Blue Whale – S...

Another rough day on the homefront , and any iota of creativity long left me, well before the noon hour. Ahhh, but there is much percolating ... The Cheeseburger That Sweats (or, as he decribes himself, a "harmless, lovable little fuzzball" - he must have shopped himself one helluva doctor to come u...

With the DOW up about 150 points today at the close, and optimism flowing about how China’s Government will pump up their economy soon, it is very tempting to think the worst is now behind us. Tempting because it’s probably true, at least for the next several years. My view (as usual wit...