My mission is simple, to make you money.

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

There's always a home market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it.

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Hey, I'm Kramer. Welcome to Mad Money.

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I'm just trying to make a little money for you. My job, not just entertain, but to put everything in context, so call me 1-800-743-C-C-NBC.

Please meet with some Kramer. Investing isn't easy, but it can be a whole lot easier and much less daunting with a little instruction.

The whole business of managing your money is made infinitely more confusing by all of the arcane technology and authentic Wall Street gibberish.

You need to wait through to learn anything about a stock or its underlying business.

If you're not clued into the jargon, it can sound like the professionals are speaking an entirely different language. You got to remember that there's an entire industry of people who need you to be happily convinced that investing's too hard for you, that ordinary people just can't do it, and that the safest thing to do is to give your money to a pro. Hey, by the way, that's a huge reason why I started my charitable trust. When you join the CNBC Investing Club, our goal is to

show you that you can do it yourself and to teach you how it's done. Of course, maybe giving your

money a professional is right move for some of you, of course, but you have the time. But if you

put in a little effort, if you do the homework, then I think you can do at least as well as the

pros or a low-cost index fund, possibly the better

comparison.

Because in any given year, a lot of the pros really lose the index funds.

The fact of the matter is that the financial industry is full of people who are just after

your fees.

They're more interested in taking your money than in making you money.

And if you're a hedge fund or a mutual fund manager trying to fundraise,

you've got every incentive to keep regular people, sadly, ignorant. Why would they make any of this

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