Taster's Choice: The Best of Cramer

When we started TheStreet.com in 1996, I immediately attempted to cover the stock issues that so many of you are interested in. My late mother always told me that the ultimate sin was to bore people, so I have always been loath to reprise the same material, no matter how great the story.

But there's a problem. We had no readers when we started. Oh yeah, my partner, Jeff Berkowitz, read me, and Dave Kansas, our editor-in-chief, read me. A couple of other people may have looked us up, but our technology was so poor they were probably stymied. Even as recently as early last year our readership was much smaller, so you may have missed some good stuff.

Now that our search engine allows us to look up virtually everything I have ever written, I have gone back over the first couple of years' stuff to see which pieces stand out as being meaningful and responsive to many of your emails. I have broken them down by topics I think are representative and I want to share them with you now. ...