Jim Cramer hosts Mad Money on CNBC and is an anchor on the network's Squawk on the Street. He worked in sales and trading at Goldman Sachs from 1984, left in 1987 to run his own hedge fund, Cramer & Co. (later Cramer, Berkowitz & Co.), until 2001, and in 1996 co-founded the financial news site TheStreet with Martin Peretz, writing for it until 2021. He graduated from Harvard College in government in 1977 and took a JD at Harvard Law School in 1984. He began appearing on CNBC as a guest commentator in the late 1990s, co-hosted Kudlow & Cramer from 2002 to 2005, and launched Mad Money in 2005.
Jim Cramer has 551 trade ideas tracked on Buzzberg across 539 tickers since November 2025. Win rate 47% across 538 evaluated calls, average return +3.8%. Ranked #629 on Buzzberg's 30-day Authors leaderboard. Most covered: NVDA, AAPL, MU.
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