My mission is simple, to make you money.

I'm here to level the playing field for all investors.

There's always a loan market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it.

Mad Money starts now.

Hey, I'm Kramer.

Welcome to Mad Money. Welcome to Kramer.

I'm going to make friends. I'm just trying to make you some money.

My job is not just to entertain but to educate and teach you. So call me at 100743 or tweet me at Jim Kramer.

Whenever you're listening to anyone's investing advice, you need to consider the source.

And ideally, you want to know where that person is coming from.

That's why tonight I'm going to tell you exactly who I am and how I got here.

No, not the standard introduction.

I'm Jim Kramer, host of Mad Money, co-as, the Squawk on the Street,

chief of the museum, investing club.

What I want to do tonight in an extremely special show by even bywacky standards

is trace the arc that brought me to mad money.

Not for some autobiographical ego trip, but to give you some money-making lessons from the

phases of my various careers. And explain, of course, how you can pop the phone.

Remember, in the end, this is Kramer, Arka, and everything we do here is about trying to help you make

money. In short, I'm giving you the Investing Kramer Guidebook, what I call that the skinny on how I learned to be a good investor and how I continue to learn every day so I can help you become better than I ever ever want to be.

By the way, that's our mission in the investing club, too.

Let's start real early.

...