Credit cards will survive under the credit card "bill of rights," companies, said Jim Cramer on Monday's "Stop Trading!" segment on CNBC. "I still think these guys are great at being able to sell their companies to people," he said. "They're really fabulous marketers."
He said MasterCard(MA Quote) and Visa(V Quote) "didn't have the debt default issues" and so were in a different category.
Visa, which Cramer's been buying for his Action Alerts PLUS charitable trust, is "really a debit card, and it's debit that's taking off," he said. "I love my debit card because it keeps me out of trouble, and I think a lot of Americans feel that way."
As for the tech rally, "it's like clockwork," Cramer said. "Once again, in the gloom of this morning, I see the uptick again" in Research In Motion(RIMM Quote), Amazon(AMZN Quote), Google(GOOG Quote) and Apple(AAPL Quote). ...
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