NP (Nick Pardini) interviewed me on his RR (Rational Rants) podcast (Episode 9) asking me about the FED, the gold standard, and active vs. passive investing. Get it at CommonSenseMag.com or thru his feed.
I kinda forgot to finish my answer to his question about “what got me to this revelation about passive investing and don’t […]

As you can tell, I have given the web site a new look today. Does it work for you?

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I’m not the only one who wants the penny eliminated. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson said, "the penny is worth less than any other currency." But he cannot spend any time on it because of the housing crisis and slumping economy.
The article mentions a group called Citizens for Retiring the Penny but their website doesn’t seem […]

I wrote the following email to Americans for Common Cents (info@pennies.org) today:
Americans for Common Cents,
I disagree with your stance to keep the penny, for the following reasons:
1) They are costing us taxpayers too much money to produce. 2) We will not suffer "rounding-up" if we instead simply drop a decimal […]

Murry Coleman writes at Index Universe about the new Diehards forum run independently that is overtaking the old forum run under Morningstar’s site. He says Morningstar blew it by "not listening to its customers and has thus lost a lot of luster with index investors." He says of Morningstar:
But in this age of MySpace […]

On show 96, I mentioned how Guru Peter Schiff’s book could have been written by presidential candidate Ron Paul. How prophetic! Today, Ron Paul has appointed Peter Schiff to be his economic advisor!
January 25, 2008 4:44 pm EST
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA – Newly appointed Ron Paul economic advisor, Peter Schiff, issued the following statement about Dr. Paul’s […]

Someone wrote a song for Jim Cramer’s Mad Money. Interesting that his picture never appears in this video. Hey guys, I have the rights to a picture of him if you want one to include one in your video.

hat tip to CrossingWallStreet.com

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I’ve set up another Virtual Stock Exchange game at MarketWatch.com under the id MadMoneyMachine.com2
Even though I don’t like their system, since it is free, I created it anyway. Have fun. It runs through 2009 this time instead of just one year. And you get $1,000,000 in play money instead of just $100,000. And you can […]

Ron Paul got 10% in Iowa. That was better than expected. Eight predictions for 2008 left to fulfill.

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Win valuable prizes and fame by playing the Mad Money Machine Lazy Portfolio Smackdown Game in 2008: Email me your Lazy Portfolio before 2 January 2008 to enter!
In 2006 we had a portfolio smackdown between a portfolio of Cramer’s recommended stocks that I selected vs. a basket of ETFs I bought and held. The ETFs […]

The two men I follow most closely, Jim Cramer and Ron Paul, together. (Hey, you got chocolate on my peanut butter!) Absolutely amazing…

Jim Cramer, if you are sincere about wishing Ron Paul the best of luck, will you please help? Would you throw your endorsement behind him and use the power of your pulpit to […]

I had the unfortunate bad luck of watching the CNN/YouTube debate of the Republican presidential candidates last night. I thought it was a shockingly horribly run affair by CNN. I will hope to not waste my time watching these again. The Internet is a much better place to learn about the candidates.
Nonetheless, I […]

If you’ve been reading closely, you’d notice that a couple of September’s ago I listed the “Ten Best Cramer Stocks to Buy Now” as a kind of a joke. You see, what I did then was choose ten Cramer picks that had already gone down the most from when he recommended them the previous March. […]

I’ve already had a request for the 2008 version of the Compact Calendar you can print from Excel.
If you don’t want to see December 2007 on the calendar, you can select rows 5 thru 9 and delete them. Let me be the first to say “Happy New Year.” Enjoy!

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My antennae are not quite as alert to all things Cramer as they once were, so it has taken me some time to come across these two articles from MarketWatch where Paul B. Farrell wrote about how bad it was to watch Cramer’s Mad Money. And then Cramer responded and wrote about how badly Farrell mis-characterized his show. I haven’t seen a further response from Farrell (perhaps it exists?) but here’s how I would respond to Cramer’s quotes from the article: …

Want a free copy of Jim Cramer’s new book, Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer)? Well, I’ll be giving one away to a lucky reviewer of this podcast in iTunes as soon as we reach 52 reviews. Get over there, submit a review for the Mad […]

Thank you Zune subscribers for making the Mad Money Machine you’re 2nd-most subscribed podcast! The new Microsoft Zune software is available today at Zune.net and is an attractive alternative to Apple’s iTunes.

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You know that the Mad Money Machine is not a political thing. But it is about financial freedom. And I also interviewed Russ Roberts of EconTalk and we learned about Hayek, libertarianism, and free markets. Somehow, I learned about Ron Paul. The more I read about and listen to Ron Paul, the more I am […]

Finding a hard time getting the house to myself. And since I’m only going to do 4 shows in October anyway, I guess I can spread ‘em out a little. Keep checking back, got some good stuff in the next show.

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I did some recording for show 80 (No, not another interview) the past couple of days and when I had put some of it together, it did not come up to my quality standards content-wise. So instead of releasing rubbish, I’m going to take another crack at it today and for however long it takes […]

I’m planning to record show 77 on Thursday, 6 Sept. This past Labor Day weekend was full of events, school didn’t start for us until TODAY, and I can’t get any peace and quiet around the house, so show 77 is delayed. I’m eager to talk about this new Barrons 400 index on the next […]