From the closing moments of “Mad Money” today, March 28, 2008:
People say bad things when they get short and they knock the stock down!
Sounded like he was complaining, didn’t it? Complaining about … Jim Cramer?
From Confessions of a Street Addict, page 61 of the paperback version, he describes his hedge fund’s activities, circa 1992:
… Or we would get short stocks and talk to the analysts about the negatives. We would work to get upgrades or downgrades because we knew, cynically, that Wall Street was simply a promotion machine.




