CNBC anchor <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/jim-cramer/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jim Cramer</a> responded to the latest inflation numbers on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;Squawk Box&#8221; — and he made it clear that President Joe Biden&#8217;s economy was not getting better.
Cramer reacted to the <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">numbers released</a> Wednesday morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics — which saw the Producer Price Index tick up 0.4% in September, after falling 0.2% in August.
&#8220;Prices for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services advanced 0.4 percent in September, the largest rise since increasing 0.5 percent in May,&#8221; the BLS report read. &#8220;For the 12 months ended in September, the index for final demand less foods, energy, and trade services moved up 5.6 percent. &#8230; Most of the September increase is attributable to a 0.6-percent rise in the index for final demand services less trade, transportation, and warehousing.&#8221;
An additional breakdown of the numbers from BLS showed that &#8220;a major factor in the September increase in prices&#8221; was the result of a 15.7% spike in the index for both &#8220;fresh and dry vegetables.&#8221; Other items that saw marked increases in September were pork, chicken eggs, heating oil for homes, and natural gas.
Cramer&#8217;s <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jim-cramer-suggests-latest-inflation-number-spells-doom-for-economy-theres-just-nothing-good-here/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">response to the numbers</a> was certainly not positive: &#8220;It was just plain bad. There’s absolutely nothing to say about it other than it was bad.&#8221;
&#8220;A lot of people were hoping this number’s going to be good, maybe accepting that tomorrow’s going to be bad,&#8221; Cramer continued, adding, &#8220;The only thing that’s actually even remotely positive about it is that there’s nothing that’s really shocking to the upside, it’s just kind of as bad as it’s been.&#8221;
&#8220;There’s no relief here,&#8221; he concluded. &#8220;There’s just nothing good here.&#8221;
The BLS data and Cramer&#8217;s response come just one day after CNN aired an interview with President Joe Biden, hosted by veteran anchor Jake Tapper, in which Biden <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/bidens-shaky-recession-prediction-no-i-dont-think-so-maybe-a-slight-one/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appeared to insist</a> that the United States was not facing — or already in the midst of — a recession.
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Q: &quot;Should the American people prepare for a recession?&quot;
BIDEN: “No&#8230;I don’t think there will be a recession. If it is, it’ll be a very slight recession.&quot; 
We’re in a recession. <a href="https://t.co/Ie1k0fCI5k">pic.twitter.com/Ie1k0fCI5k</a>
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&#8220;Should the American people prepare for a recession?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Biden replied, saying that people predict recessions every six months and it &#8220;hasn&#8217;t happened yet.&#8221;
&#8220;I don’t think there will be a recession. If it is, it’ll be a very slight recession,&#8221; he said.
By the technical definition — which the White House has distanced itself from in recent weeks — the United States already <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/u-s-in-a-recession-after-second-straight-quarter-of-negative-growth/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered a recession</a> after posting negative GDP growth over two consecutive quarters.

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Jim Cramer Says ‘There’s Just Nothing Good Here’ About Biden Inflation Numbers

CNBC's Jim Cramer Says 'There's Just Nothing Good Here' About Biden Inflation Numbers

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CNBC anchor Jim Cramer was slammed for arguing that the government “has a right to force you to obey.”
The remarks from Cramer — who has worked as an anchor with the financial news outlet for the past two decades — follow his previous arguments in favor of harsh COVID-19 mitigation policies.
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Conservatives and libertarians immediately refuted Cramer’s argument.
“I missed the ‘right to force you to obey’ in the Constitution but go off,” <a href="https://twitter.com/karol/status/1471172884886347780">replied</a> columnist Karol Markowicz. 
“Governments do not have rights. Only individuals have rights,” noted the <a href="https://twitter.com/lpnevada/status/1471154020966305798">Libertarian Party of Nevada</a>. “Rights emerge from properties inherent to our existence, their source is our humanity, and they are fundamental to the nature of our being. Rights cannot be granted by government because they preexist all governments.”
“You came out as a fascist a while ago, but I guess this is a more blatant way of admitting it,” added commentator <a href="https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen">Lauren Chen</a>.
On Thursday, Cramer responded that he is “getting people furious” over his pro-vaccine stand — adding that those who disagree with him would be “pro-polio” in another era.
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As <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnbc-host-we-should-have-military-enforce-universal-vaccination">The Daily Wire</a> recently reported, Cramer believes that unvaccinated Americans should have to make their argument before a court to defend their “conscientious objector” status. He also slammed the “toothless” vaccine mandates forwarded by the Biden administration:
<blockquote>We haven’t centralized the issue to the point where the White House actually seems to take responsibility. We’d see. First was the CDC, then the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, mostly coordinating policy through talk shows.
Then we left vaccination policy to individual companies. Now it’s toothless OSHA going back and forth on what’s allowed in factories, but nobody with any power saying the frontline workers need to be vaccinated. It’s just plain wrong, and most of us are sick of it.</blockquote>
Cramer then castigated those who have not yet been vaccinated for perpetuating the COVID-19 crisis:
<blockquote>Even as a vocal, anti-vax minority is always grabbing the mic, this charade must end. The government must require vaccinations. Not of this group or that group, not company by company, not cruise ship by cruise ship, or airline by airline or governor by governor. The buck stops at the White House.</blockquote>
Despite Cramer’s staunch support for mandatory vaccination, early data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cdc-only-20-of-omicron-cases-occurred-in-unvaccinated-people">reveal</a> that nearly eight in ten cases of the Omicron variant occurred in fully vaccinated people. However, Dr. Anthony Fauci — who leads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and works as President Biden’s chief medical adviser on COVID-19 — believes that “if you want to be optimally protected you really should get a booster.”
The Daily Wire is fighting Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate in federal court. Join us in this fight by <a href="https://lp.dailywire.com/osha-petition/">signing</a> our petition to OSHA, telling them that you will not comply with this mandate.

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CNBC Anchor Jim Cramer: ‘Government Has A Right To Force You To Obey’

COVID-19 Vaccine

Just when you think the mainstream media cannot get any crazier, they up the ante by recommending American soldiers force the coronavirus vaccine on to American citizens.
On Monday, CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer ranted that the United States should use the military to enforce universal vaccination to &#8220;help win the war on COVID.&#8221; The &#8220;Mad Money&#8221; host also stated that unvaxxed Americans should have to make their argument before a court as to why they should have &#8220;conscientious objector&#8221; status and be allowed to forgo COVID-19 vaccination.
Cramer — a usually high-energy commentator focused on financial markets — began his show examining the economy and stocks. Then, Cramer shifted his rant to slamming &#8220;toothless&#8221; mandates from the Biden administration, that were not enforceable by federal agencies such as OSHA:
<blockquote>We haven’t centralized the issue to the point where the White House actually seems to take responsibility. We’d see. First was the CDC, then the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, mostly coordinating policy through talk shows. 
Then we left vaccination policy to individual companies. Now it’s toothless OSHA going back and forth on what’s allowed in factories, but nobody with any power saying the frontline workers need to be vaccinated. It’s just plain wrong, and most of us are sick of it.</blockquote>
He went on, this time blaming &#8220;antivaxxers&#8221; for the continued COVID-19 crisis, as the White House would categorize it. He said:
<blockquote>Even as a vocal, anti-vax minority is always grabbing the mic, this charade must end. The government must require vaccinations. Not of this group or that group, not company by company, not cruise ship by cruise ship, or airline by airline or governor by governor. The buck stops at the White House.</blockquote>
Cramer noted that President Dwight Eisenhower was able to coordinate a massive polio vaccine push, which ultimately helped virtually eliminate the disease from the globe in the 1950s. He wondered why President Joe Biden couldn’t use the military to also coerce Americans into receiving the jab.
&#8220;Now, we&#8217;re engaged in a similar struggle with COVID and Eisenhower would be aghast,&#8221; the host stated. &#8220;We have immunocompromised people — who are incubators for every variant to come — walking around lawfully unvaccinated? That&#8217;s psychotic.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s time to admit that we have to go to war against COVID,&#8221; Cramer continued. &#8220;Require vaccination universally. Have the military run it. If you don&#8217;t want to get vaccinated, you better be ready to prove your conscientious objector status in court.&#8221;
It is unclear what scientific findings Cramer was basing his rant against unvaccinated people. It has been <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2021/10/29/covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-unvaccinated-spread-study/">established</a> that both vaccinated and unvaccinated people can spread COVID-19, albeit to varying degrees of passability.
A portion of the screed can be found below:
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CNBC Host: We Should Have Military Enforce Universal Vaccination

On Wednesday, President Trump admonished CNBC host Jim Cramer for apologizing after Cramer called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) &#8220;Crazy Nancy&#8221; to her face.
Trump tweeted, “Jim, you didn’t make a mistake. It’s true, and that’s why you said it. No pandering!”
On Tuesday, Cramer, speaking with Pelosi, called her “Crazy Nancy,” echoing President Trump. Cramer asked, “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy?” He immediately followed with, “I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reference for the office. I would never use that term.”
The exchange continued:
<blockquote>Pelosi: But you just did! But you just did.
Cramer: You know what I mean. You know what I mean.
Pelosi: I know what you meant. I do. I do.
Cramer: The reverence I have for the office …</blockquote>
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Pelosi later responded, &#8220;Anything the president says is a projection of his own insecurities. He calls other people crazy because he knows he is. He&#8217;s a master of projection. So anytime he says something you say, &#8216;Uh-oh, that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s thinking of himself.’” She added, “If you&#8217;re talking to him, you&#8217;re almost wasting your time, because it&#8217;s not going to pan out,” as The Hill reported, noting, “Pelosi has repeatedly questioned Trump&#8217;s mental health and suggested that he needs an ‘intervention’ from advisers and family members.”
Later on Tuesday, Cramer apologized on-air, saying, “Earlier today, when I talked to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on &#8216;Squawk on the Street,&#8217; I made a very stupid comment. It was a tongue-in-cheek attempt to make a point about the harsh tone of the negotiations in Washington. But it fell completely flat, and I apologize for that … As I said immediately after the comment, I want to make it clear that I have an incredible amount of respect for both the speaker and, of course, the office she holds.”
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Jim, you didn’t make a mistake. It’s true, and that’s why you said it. No pandering! <a href="https://t.co/64fFoZvMZc">https://t.co/64fFoZvMZc</a>
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1306244076065431552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cnbcs-jim-cramer-calls-pelosi-crazy-nancy-to-her-face">noted</a>, Trump has been calling Pelosi “Crazy Nancy” for quite a while; in December 2019 he tweeted:
<blockquote>Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States? Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” She said it must be “bipartisan” &amp; overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!</blockquote>
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&#8230;&amp; overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210035580140175361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Trump and Pelosi haven&#8217;t &#8220;had an extended, face-to-face conversation since Oct. 16, 2019, during a meeting at the White House about Trump&#8217;s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northern Syria,&#8221; The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/516320-pelosi-defends-not-speaking-to-trump-for-almost-a-year">reported</a>.
Pelosi said on MSNBC, &#8220;I don&#8217;t find it a good use of time &#8230; Quite frankly, my experience with the president has been that it hasn&#8217;t been on the level. You know, he&#8217;ll say something and then it doesn&#8217;t really happen.&#8221;

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CNBC’s Cramer Apologizes For Calling Pelosi ‘Crazy Nancy.’ Trump Admonishes Him: ‘No Pandering!’

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On Tuesday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer, speaking with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, called her “Crazy Nancy,” echoing President Trump. Cramer asked, “What deal can we have, Crazy Nancy?” He immediately followed with, “I’m sorry, that was the president. I have such reference for the office. I would never use that term.” The exchange continued:
<blockquote>Pelosi: But you just did! But you just did.
Cramer: You know what I mean. You know what I mean.
Pelosi: I know what you meant. I do. I do.
Cramer: The reverence I have for the office …</blockquote>
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Pelosi later responded, &#8220;Anything the president says is a projection of his own insecurities. He calls other people crazy because he knows he is. He&#8217;s a master of projection. So anytime he says something you say, &#8216;Uh-oh, that&#8217;s what he&#8217;s thinking of himself.’” She added, “If you&#8217;re talking to him, you&#8217;re almost wasting your time, because it&#8217;s not going to pan out,” as <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/516493-pelosi-says-trump-calls-other-people-crazy-because-he-knows-he-is">The Hill</a> reported, noting, “Pelosi has repeatedly questioned Trump&#8217;s mental health and suggested that he needs an ‘intervention’ from advisers and family members.”
Trump has been calling Pelosi “Crazy Nancy” for quite a while; in December 2019 he tweeted:
<blockquote>Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi, just because she has a slight majority in the House, be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States? Got ZERO Republican votes, there was no crime, the call with Ukraine was perfect, with “no pressure.” She said it must be “bipartisan” &amp; overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!</blockquote>
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&#8230;&amp; overwhelming,” but this Scam Impeachment was neither. Also, very unfair with no Due Process, proper representation, or witnesses. Now Pelosi is demanding everything the Republicans weren’t allowed to have in the House. Dems want to run majority Republican Senate. Hypocrites!
&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1210035580140175361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 26, 2019</a></blockquote>
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In December 2019, before the coronavirus pandemic hit and the economy was booming, Cramer appeared on CNBC’s  “Squawk Box” to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnbcs-jim-cramer-on-jobs-report-doesnt-matter-whether-you-hate-trump-these-are-the-best-numbers-of-our-lives">discuss the unemployment numbers</a> released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of November. He stated:
<blockquote>There&#8217;s a fellow by the name of Michael Cembalest &#8230; he is the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan. He came up with a list of what the cable companies – CNN, [MSNBC] – what do they cover. 16th is positive economic news. All the rest of them are negative. So, you know what&#8217;s going on here, Joe. People don&#8217;t want to say good things, and this is the best number I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life!</blockquote>
Host Joe Kernan then asked Cramer, “How can it last forever?”
Cramer replied:
<blockquote>It has to go up, Joe, because when we win the trade war, which you now know we&#8217;re going to win now because we have the better numbers, then they&#8217;re going to have to put jobs here. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re going to have to do. And we&#8217;re not even talking about that yet. In the end, the Chinese are going to have to put jobs here. Because this thing is – the president can walk away from the table with this number.</blockquote>
After Kernan stated that Americans won’t “see that written or said anywhere,” Cramer responded, saying the “truth sets people free.”
Cramer added:
<blockquote>You can&#8217;t contradict that these are the best numbers of our lives. &#8230; I don&#8217;t see inflation; I don&#8217;t see recession. 50 years ago that number was a curse, now it&#8217;s a blessing. And you know something, Joe? It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you hate [Trump] or like him, these are real numbers.</blockquote>

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WATCH: CNBC’s Jim Cramer Calls Pelosi ‘Crazy Nancy’ To Her Face

On Friday, CNBC’s “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer appeared on the network’s “Squawk Box” to discuss the latest unemployment numbers released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the month of November.
“Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 266,000 in November. Job growth has averaged 180,000 per month thus far in 2019, compared with an average monthly gain of 223,000 in 2018. In November, notable job gains occurred in health care and in professional and technical services,” reports <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm">BLS</a>.
The bureau also noted that the “seasonally adjusted” unemployment rate dipped from 3.6% in October to 3.5% in November. Last year (November 2018), the unemployment rate was 3.7% “adjusted.”
Additionally, average hourly earnings for “all employees on private nonfarm payrolls” are up 86 cents from November 2018 ($27.43 to $28.29).
After noting that there was “growth with not very much inflation,” Cramer stated that he wished people “were making more money.”
He then mentioned cable news bias pertaining to the economy:
<blockquote>There&#8217;s a fellow by the name of Michael Cembalest &#8230; he is the Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy at J.P. Morgan. He came up with a list of what the cable companies – CNN, [MSNBC] – what do they cover. 16th is positive economic news. All the rest of them are negative. So, you know what&#8217;s going on here, Joe. People don&#8217;t want to say good things, and this is the best number I&#8217;ve ever seen in my life!</blockquote>
Host Joe Kernan then asked Cramer “how can it last forever?”
Cramer replied, speaking directly about the ongoing trade war with China:
<blockquote>It has to go up, Joe, because when we win the trade war, which you now know we&#8217;re going to win now because we have the better numbers, then they&#8217;re going to have to put jobs here. That&#8217;s what they&#8217;re going to have to do. And we&#8217;re not even talking about that yet. In the end, the Chinese are going to have to put jobs here. Because this thing is – the president can walk away from the table with this number.</blockquote>
After Kernan stated that Americans won’t “see that written or said anywhere,” Cramer responded, saying the “truth sets people free.”
Cramer added:
<blockquote>You can&#8217;t contradict that these are the best numbers of our lives. &#8230; I don&#8217;t see inflation; I don&#8217;t see recession. 50 years ago that number was a curse, now it&#8217;s a blessing. And you know something, Joe? It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you hate [Trump] or like him, these are real numbers.</blockquote>
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On Wednesday, J.P. Morgan’s Michael Cembalest published a piece covering a variety of finial topics. In the piece, as Cramer stated on “Squawk Box,” Cembalest <a href="https://am.jpmorgan.com/blobcontent/1383651198191/83456/12-04-2019%20-%20War%20of%20the%20Worlds_AMV.pdf">charted</a> the coverage of four cable news shows (CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” and “Cuomo Prime Time,” and MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” and “Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell”) over the course of one year (September 2018 &#8211; September 2019).
What Cembalest and his team found was that “positive economic news” came in 16th place under the “number of times [a] topic [was] discussed in depth” metric, below the following:
<blockquote>Mueller investigation/Russian interference
Trump is inept/erratic/mendacious/biased
Asylum and immigration
Trump Administration corruption
Presidential politics
Supreme Court
Natural disasters
Gun violence
International relations
Senate/Governors Races
North Korea
Trade war
Data privacy
Climate change
Opioids and prescription drug pricing</blockquote>
This isn’t surprising to anyone who follows this type of thing closely. As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-former-msnbc-host-says-networks-coverage-frank-camp">previously reported</a>:
<blockquote>According to a report from the <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/rich-noyes/2019/01/15/networks-trashed-trump-90-negative-spin-2018-did-it-matter">Media Research Center</a> (MRC), from January 2017 through December 2018, 90% of the coverage of President Trump from the major network evening news programs (ABC, CBS, NBC) has been negative, while just 10% has been positive. The analysis excludes “neutral statements.”
MRC states: “To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about the President or his administration from either reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources such as experts or voters. Evaluations from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included.”
Of the 858 minutes spent by the big three networks’ evening newscasts discussing the Trump/Russia collusion story in 2018, 98% was “negative,” according to the MRC analysis. Of the 643 minutes covering immigration and the border, 94% was “negative.” The least negative of the big five “Trump-bashing” stories that received hundreds of minutes of airtime pertained to North Korea (410 minutes; 80% “negative”).</blockquote>