Cramer's 'Mad Money' Recap: Game Plan How-To

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The Wages of Sin...

"Nice guys finish last," said Cramer. That's especially true when it comes to stocks.

So on "Mad Money," we are joining the Vice Squad, said Cramer, becase as he explained it, there is no room for socially responsible investing if you want to make money.

"You can't save the world if you don't have the resources," he said.

Cramer said he compared a portfolio of the stocks of the top 10 corporate citizens with that of the Vice Fund(VICEX Quote).

The "good guy" stock portfolio Cramer looked at consists of:

The Vice Fund consists of:

While the group of socially responsible stocks, as a whole, fell 4% over the past year, Cramer said, the vice-stocks group climbed 30%.

"From this empirical evidence, sin does pay," he said.

Lightning Round

Cramer was bullish on TD Ameritrade(AMTD Quote), Goldman Sachs(GS Quote), Virgin Media(VMED Quote), GlobalSantaFe(GSF Quote), Six Flags(SIX Quote), Exxon Mobil(XOM Quote), Rite Aid(RAD Quote) and Corning(GLW Quote).

Cramer was bearish on Qualcomm(QCOM Quote), Syntax-Brillian(BRLC Quote). and Aqua America(WTR Quote).

For more of Cramer's insights during the Lightning Round, click here.

Want more Cramer? Check out Jim's rules and commandments for investing from his popular book by clicking here.

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At the time of publication, Cramer was long Altria, Diageo and Goldman Sachs.

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