Combining his uncanny ability to predict market
shifts with his groundbreaking use of the Internet, Cramer's
pronouncements have been known to move markets - a power formerly
reserved for Wall Street analysts and traditional sources
like the Wall Street Journal.
Cramer combines market savvy, an eagle eye for brand positioning,
and a unique style of fired-up energy to put audiences of
the WOR Radio Network on the road to astounding financial
success.
Jim Cramer graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College,
in 1977, where he was President, or editor in chief, of The
Harvard Crimson. He then worked at the Tallahassee Democrat
and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, covering everything from
sports to homicide, before moving to New York to help start
American Lawyer magazine. After a three year stint, Cramer
entered Harvard Law School and received his J.D. in 1984.
He then passed the New York Bar Exam, but instead of practicing
law, went directly to Goldman Sachs, where he worked in sales
and trading. In 1987 he left Goldman to start his own hedge
fund, where over a fourteen year period he delivered a compound
return of 24% after all fees, substantially in excess of the
market during that same period.
While he worked at his fund he helped start Smart Money for
Dow Jones and then in 1996, he created TheStreet.com, the
on-line journal of opinion and analysis. In 2000, he retired
from active money management to embrace media full-time, including
radio and television. He is a markets commentator for CNBC
and TheStreet.com, host of CNBC’s Mad Money with Jim
Cramer, and host of the nationally syndicated talk radio show,
Jim Cramer’s Real Money. He is the author of “Confessions
of a Street Addict,” “You Got Screwed,”
and “Jim Cramer’s Real Money,” (pub date
April 5, 2005); and a columnist for New York Magazine. Jim
lives with his wife and two girls in New Jersey. |