Cramer in Favor of Sarbanes-Oxley

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Today Cramer was discussing Sarbanes-Oxley on his Wall Street Confidential video on TheStreet.com.  Did I hear this right?  Cramer says Sarbanes-Oxley is doing great things.  He has actually been positive on the fairness and openness of SEC filings, information dissemination, and openness of the company books.  So this comment may not be a surprise, even if most corporate officers hate SARBOX.  Cramer said that IPO’s are now of lower quality because the pipe was emptied last year.  He sees very little that he likes out of the 10-12 in the hopper.  UA/CROX care less about SARBOX and he thinks SARBOX is doing great things.  This is a barrier the SEC should always have had. 

This appears to have been pre-recorded from before his back-to-school tour.  Cramer notes that if you can’t afford the Sabanes-Oxley fees you probably shouldn’t be public anyway.  There is a lot more and this segment wasn’t really about individual stock picks, hence the pre-recording.

Jon C. Ogg
Fenruary 9, 2007

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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