Mine Tragedy Spun as Profit Opportunity
Spectacular. Bad-boy investment celebrity Jim Cramer, host of CNBC's "Mad Money with Jim Cramer," actually recommended today investing in "mine-safety" stocks. Not because it is important for us as a country to pick up the slack left by a "paper tiger" federal mine safety agency, but because there could be lots of dough in it.
According to the blog Crooks and Liars, Cramer actually said " "we're not partisan here... we're just looking to make money, and the Bush Administration has been negligent." And why on earth not cash in?
There is simply something obscene about the very suggestion.
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