Hedge fund managers only pay 15% capital gains

#bbpBox_160767994451083264 a { text-decoration:none; color:#0084B4; }#bbpBox_160767994451083264 a:hover { text-decoration:underline; }”Can you believe i get away with only paying 15% . What a scam but we own Congress.” There, that’s what i hear. Is that a good thing?January 21, 2012 9:57 am via TweetDeckReplyRetweetFavorite@jimcramerJim Cramer

Jim Cramer says the loophole that permits hedge fund and private [...]

Jim Cramer was a Spartacist in college. Likens bonus outrage to Lenin in 1917: ‘It’s really about stringing up guys’

He says when he was living in his car, he thought the income disparity was unfair and studied communism seriously. But that the Russian revolution failed and the peasants basically just wanted to kill rich people. So let’s tax them now instead.

But that doesn’t get at root causes, does it? Or really solve [...]

Jon Stewart on Lenny Dykstra and Jim Cramer

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Jim Cramer calls yet another bottom in housing

Maybe if I act really crazy people won’t notice how many times I’ve been wrong

Presumably on the theory that if he makes enough calls, sooner or later one of them might be right, Jim Cramer just said we are at the real housing bottom now. Honest. Forget all the other bottoms I called.

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Stewart v. Cramer. Class war between investors

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Many might label the current feud that has erupted between The Daily Show host John Stewart and CNBC as part of this tradition of class warfare, but it has really exposed a rift between the investor class between Wall Street insiders and outsiders that have faithfully invested their money over the [...]

Why did Jim Cramer admit to manipulating the markets

In a 2006 TheStreet.com interview, Jim Cramer said he manipulated the stock market when he ran hedge funds.

So, why would he admit to it?

While what he did might have been technically illegal, probably the statute of limitations had run out.

That he boasted about it speaks volumes.

Former congressman calls for investigation of Jim Cramer

Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va) is calling for an investigation of Cramer, based on Cramer’s own statements in 2006 about how he manipulated stocks when he ran hedge funds.

“You know, a lot of times when I was short and I was positioned short, meaning I needed it down, I would create a [...]

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs on Jon Stewart eviscerating Jim Cramer

“I enjoyed it thoroughly despite, even as Mr. Stewart said, that it may have been uncomfortable to conduct and uncomfortable to watch,” Gibbs said during the daily White House briefing. “I thought somebody asked a lot of tough questions, and I am not surprised that the video of Mr. Cramer’s appearance doesn’t appear on CNBC’s [...]

Cramer creamed. “A storming of the Bastille” moment

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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Jim Cramer Unedited Interview Pt. 1

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I watched the Daily Show with growing shock last night. Did you expect that? I [...]

On Jon Stewart mocking CNBC and Cramer

Jon Stewart openly mocking CNBC and its unquestioning groupie worship of the financial world is something both new and welcome, especially considering that it has gotten such major attention. This signals, I think, a sea change in how the public views the world of finance.