Jim Cramer

Jim Cramer is co-founder and chairman of TheStreet.com. He contributes daily market commentary for TheStreet.com's sites and serves as an adviser to the company's CEO. He is also the host of CNBC's "Mad Money" and the author of several books, including Stay Mad for Life: Get Rich, Stay Rich (Make Your Kids Even Richer, Mad Money: Watch TV, Get Rich, Jim Cramer's Real Money: Sane Investing in an Insane World, You Got Screwed! Why Wall Street Tanked and How You Can Prosper and his autobiography, Confessions of a Street Addict. Cramer also runs Action Alerts PLUS.

A frequent contributor to Time magazine, Cramer also writes about the stock market for New York magazine, was a founder of and former columnist for SmartMoney magazine and helped found American Lawyer magazine. Cramer worked at Goldman Sachs from 1984 to 1987.

Cramer graduated from Harvard College in 1977, where he was president of The Harvard Crimson. He was a journalist for four years before earning a law degree from Harvard Law School in 1984.