My mission is simple, to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors.

There's always a homework 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.

I'm going to make friends.

I'm just trying to make a little money. My job is not just

in entertainment, but to teach and I'm telling you I'm going to do a lot of teaching

tonight. So call me at 1-807 for 3, C, or tweet me at your grammar. Tough days do not last forever.

But when they come alone, you need to know how to respond.

You need a game plan ready so you can figure out what kind of sell-up we're dealing with

and then react appropriately.

Because the early days of the decline are never easy to navigate.

You need all the help you can get.

To borrow a line from Tolstoy's fantastic anti-Crenner,

all happy rallies are alike.

Each sell-off is unhappy in its own way.

It's true.

Bullmarket stocks hire, everyone thinks their genius participating because it seems so

darn easy. Same every time, but big declines much harder. They could be the start of a

bare market or maybe something worse or they might actually be just a

viable glitch. That's why tonight we're turning to history to illustrate some of

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