My mission is simple, to make you money.

I'm here to level the playing field for all investors.

There's always a boom market somewhere,

and I promise to help you find it.

Mad money starts now.

Hey, I'm Kramer.

Welcome to Mad Money.

Welcome to Cray America.

Other than to make friends, I'm just trying to make you some money.

My job is not just entertained but to educate and teach you.

So call me at 1,807,000 C.C. or tweet me at Jim Kramer.

Whenever you're listening to anyone's investing advice, you need to consider the source.

And ideally you want to know where that person's coming from.

That's why tonight I'm going to tell you exactly who I am and how I got here.

No, not the standard introduction.

I'm Jim Kramer, host, the money, co-less, the Squawkley,

chief of the Cee, the Ceboxee Investing Club.

What I want to do tonight in an extremely special show by even by Wylaki standards is trace the arc that brought me to mad money.

Not for some autobiographical ego trip, but to give you some money-making lessons from the phases of my various careers and explain of course how you can

pop the phone. Remember in the end this is Kramer America and everything we do here

is about trying to help you make money. In short I'm giving you the

Invested Kramer guidebook, what have called that the skinny on how I learned

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