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Finally, an addendum to something I mentioned on show 47 about the Christmas tree lights: My wife came home with the Light Keeper Pro gizmo and I can’t believe it but it actually WORKED! It fixed three out of four strands AUTOMATICALLY! (The other one I put on the back side of the tree, ha ha). So sometimes advances in technology DO make you happy!

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Filling the last slot: MO

How’s this one for a brand-name blue chip: Altria (MO)? Jim said on Mad Money last night that not only is Altria “dirt cheap,” it is going to break itself up into three companies, which is when the company’s “real value will be unlocked.”

We’ll buy 130 shares at $83.53 today. It has been as high as $85.55 recently, so I am kinda confused as to why Jim thinks it is dirt cheap, but we’ll soon see won’t we?

MMM-047: Your Own Hedge Fund!

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411 Item 100A Mad Money Machine Podcast

Welcome to the show it is November 27th and this is the missing 100A show. Today will be an interview with Paul Douglas Boyer creator and host of the Mad Money Machine podcast at http://MadMoneyMachine.com.

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Stocks on sale: Add JNJ to Portfolio Smackdown

Finally, stocks are on sale. So we have two categories open in the Portfolio Smackdown for the Cramer Featured stocks, namely, Brand-name blue chip and Secular soft goods. When Cramer talked about the ten categories to diversify across and mentioned the secular soft goods, he specifically mentioned Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) so I went through my notes and see that he recommended the stock as recently as 3 November and said he was adding shares of it to his Action Alerts Plus portfolio. Too bad for him, because on Nov 3rd they were trading at $68 per share and today we’re loading up on them for the low, low price of only $65.32 per share. With the cash balance of $ 21,476.18, we’ll take half and buy 164 shares of JNJ today.

Next up: Fill that Brand Name Blue Chip slot. Would wait another day to see if the market keeps putting things on sale before buying.

MMM-046: Relax

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MMM-045: Should I Risk Exposure

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Why haven’t we filled the gaps in the Cramer Portfolio?

My take on Step 11 of the 12 Step Program for Active Investors: Coming Soon

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I tried: Stay subscribed

I spent some time today working on the show, but it looks more and more like it ain’t gonna happen… you see, I got this big screen TV and, well, you know how hard it is to make a podcast when there’s all this TV to watch, right? Especially in glorious upconverted 1080p. And DC United is in the semifinals against NY Red Bull, and I still haven’t watched Battlestar from last Friday, and tomorrow I have a meeting that I need to wake up early for, and yesterday we had some FRIENDS over (remember friends?) and that took the whole day, and I’m trying to find the PERFECT song for Step 11 and I’ve been through about 50 so far and it ain’t happenin’, but I did talk for about a half hour with Mark Hebner of IFA and there’s lots of good stuff I want to talk about on my next show, but you know I never settle for 2nd best, so instead I guess we’ll just have to wait, and of course Halloween is coming up and that means constant doorbell ringing and not podcasting, and I have three other meetings this week….. thanks for checking in, thanks for listening, thanks for ALL the nice things you’ve written in the comments! Stay subscribed and you’ll get the next show when it is ready. More later…

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MMM-044: No Chances

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Show’s a No-Show

Good news, bad news: The good news is I am really enjoying my day job. Lots of things to invent. And the money is great (well, at least better than what I make as a podcaster 🙂 ). The bad news is that I am really enjoying my day job. Thus show 44 won’t be out on its regular schedule. But the beauty of podcasting over, say, radio, is that the show will be out when it is ready and not according to some clock. So set your iTunes to subscribe and it will turn bold after it downloads.

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