Kudlow & Cramer

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Kudlow & Cramer was a CNBC American business and politics television program with Lawrence Kudlow and James Cramer. The program initially replaced Hardball with Chris Matthews, which moved to sister channel MSNBC, for the 8 p.m. Eastern Time slot, but later moved to the 5 p.m. slot.

Kudlow & Cramer had high TV ratings in comparison to other CNBC shows, after CNBC's TV ratings went down because of the negativity of the dot-com bubble burst and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the U.S. Opponents of the program in the blogosphere criticized Kudlow and Cramer as being hacks and dubbed them "Krudlow & Screamer".

The program last aired on February 11, 2005, before it was split into Kudlow & Company, which first aired February 14, and Mad Money, which replaced Dylan Ratigan's Bullseye on March 14 of the same year.

One of the most remembered guests on the show was Paul Krugman, who appeared on the show in late 2004. Today, he is still heavily criticized by Kudlow and Cramer, who on his new program burst a helium-inflated bubble marked "Krugman" with a needle after Krugman complained on his newspaper column about a supposed housing bubble, and Cramer referred to him as a "bubble head", in allusion to bobblehead dolls.