Granville, Cramer and the Second Coming
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Market Gurus Have Their Moments
More than anything else over the last 20 years, I have learned that financial popularity has its seasons, so it is important to explore the Joe Granville/Jim Cramer parallel. Like Granville, Jim "El Capitan" Cramer has become a market guru, and investors, traders and viewers have had an animated response to his Granville-like wild gestures and animated personality. He has recently graced the cover of BusinessWeek, and, like Joe, he is so influential that the mere mention of a stock on his CNBC "Mad Money" program causes an instantaneous response (with some stocks rising as much as 10% in overnight trading).
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