his trademark flair to sell off stock in Hydra Offshore. Reception According to Nielsen Ratings, on July 7, 2008, the show had 228,000 viewers for its 6 PM airing and 133,000 viewers for its 11 PM rebroadcast. On March 9, 2009, the show had 328,000 viewers for 6 PM and 176,000 viewers for 11 PM. In January 2006, Joseph Nocera, a business columnist at The New York Times, opined that the "people who are watching Mad Money and following Cramer's advice are fools." In late January 2007, Henry Blodget – himself indicted for civil securities fraud in 2002 and banned for life from the securities industry – criticized Cramer for overstating his abilities as a market forecaster, noting that in 2006 Cramer's suggested portfolio lost money "despite nearly every major equity market on earth being up between about 15% and 30%". In August 2007, Cramer called for the Federal Reserve to support hedge funds that were losing money in the subprime mortgage crisis, prompting Martin Wolf, the chief economics commentator for the Financial Times, to accuse Cramer of advocating an offensive and catastrophic "socialism for capitalists". In March 2009, during the Jon Stewart–Jim Cramer conflict, Jon Stewart of Comedy Central's The Daily Show questioned CNBC's reporting practices and what should have been done to possibly aid in preventing the economic crisis occurring at the time. See also Fast Money (a CNBC financial investing program, hosted by Melissa Lee, which follows a similar format) Kudlow & Cramer Money Monster, a 2016 American thriller film Squawk on the Street (a CNBC business news program that features Cramer's "Stop Trading!" segment) TheStreet.com References External links About Mad Money – CNBC.com "Mad Money Manifesto" by Jim Cramer 2005 American television series debuts 2000s American television talk shows 2010s American television talk shows 2020s American television talk shows 2000s American television news shows 2010s American television news shows 2020s American television news shows Business-related television series CNBC original programming