Comments on: Jim Cramer’s Cult of Personality http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/ Financial talk for the rest of us Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:14:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Cheryl http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-231756 Cheryl Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:25:29 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-231756 Of course! It’s a gimmick.

]]> By: John Singer http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-50709 John Singer Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:26:20 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-50709 Some more of Jim Cramer’s stock performance on Mad Money for your reading pleasure – http://www.stocktagger.com/2007/05/jim-cramer-takeover-targets-performance.html

]]> By: JohnB http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-50616 JohnB Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:23:21 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-50616 I think the biggest business strategy today for anyone on tv or in the media is to create a cult of personality and watch the cash roll in.

-Oprah
-Suze Orman
-Cramer
-Robert Kiyosaki

Etc.

They all follow the same strategy of…you either passionately love them, or hate them. They are way out there as lightning rods. They’re so polarizing, you can’t ignore them.

The ones that are passionately loyal (hypnotized?) will buy anything they sell (look at the stuff Oprah sells…The Secret, and new age pyscho babble).

If you examined cults and these cults of personality, is there really much difference?

]]> By: Greg http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-20117 Greg Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:38:32 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-20117 Jim Cramer has to come up with several new stock picks every night. Certainly, he doesn’t have the same conviction in each one of his picks. Don’t be the sad clown who buys CWTR. Apply the same weight to all the picks and you’re bound to lose out to some arb hedgie. Why are so many people complaining about how Cramer is a fraud and a phony when they don’t know half the truth? Some enterprising statisticians at stocktagger have come closer to conclusive evidence than most.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-497 Jeff Sun, 03 Dec 2006 04:08:42 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-497 I wouldn’t say that Jim Cramer’s Mad Money show on CNBC is about personal finance at all. It’s strictly about picking stocks. Suze Orman is CNBC’s personal finance guru, and if you watch them both you see a very clear difference between the two. I like Cramer’s show, but I don’t watch it on a regular basis, because I am not a very active trader and I tend to buy in the areas of my expertise, and not Cramer’s or anyone else’s.

]]> By: BxCapricorn http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-488 BxCapricorn Sat, 02 Dec 2006 23:48:54 +0000 http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2006/11/08/jim-cramers-cult-of-personality/#comment-488 I’ve watched his show here and there and I’ve been surprised at how strange it is compared to his contribution to thestreet.com. He is very candid in his analysis of a market, stock, or trend and his insights help me to better gage my own reactions to the daily stock reports.

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