Confessions of a Street Addict

Finance expert, bestselling author, and host of CNBC’s Mad Money Jim Cramer takes readers on a wild Wall Street ride—revealing how to play the game, who breaks the rules, and who gets hurt.

Everyone on Wall Street knows Jim Cramer, and Cramer knows Wall Street better than anyone. Candid and outrageous, Confessions of a Street Addict takes readers on the wild ride that is Wall Street.

Cramer details his life, from the middle-class Philadelphia suburbs to Harvard, where he began managing money, and then to Goldman Sachs. He brilliantly describes the life of a money manager: the frenetic pace, the constant pressure to outperform the market and other fund managers, and the sharklike attacks fund managers make as they circle a fund perceived to be in trouble.

Throughout the book Cramer is characteristically outspoken, offering his hard-won insights about the market and everyone in it, himself included. There has never been a more eloquent market insider than Cramer, nor a more high-octane book about Wall Street.

Jim Cramer is a bestselling author, financial expert, and media personality. He is the host of CNBC’s Mad Money and cohost of Squawk on the Street. He is also the founder of CNBC Investing Club and TheStreet. His many books include Confessions of a Street Addict, Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even, Jim Cramer’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer’s Real Money, Jim Cramer’s Stay Mad for Life, and Jim Cramer’s Get Rich Carefully. Cramer is a former hedge fund manager and founder/owner and senior partner of Cramer Berkowitz; when he retired from his hedge fund, he finished with one of the best records in the business. A graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, Cramer’s first job on Wall Street was at Goldman Sachs.