Monoline Madness By Jim Cramer About this article: This market's driving everyone nuts. We've got these two companies, these two nothing monolines, that are holding the whole darned system hostage. We have the government giving away $600 to everybody, which is a pathetic way to deal with a problem rooted in housing. We have a market that needs oil to go higher even as the average Joe would think it needs to go lower. We have people slashing estimates every day for the brokers, but they don't want to seem to go down when the futures rally even as they are pathetic without them. We have takeovers for two of the worst companies out there: Take-Two and Getty, even as hundreds of other good ones get hammered everyday. We have fertilizer stocks that are growth stocks, and growth stocks that smell like fertilizer. And if we had a fed funds rate of 2% and one month where housing... Or, call us at 1-866-321-TSCM (8726) Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. ET. Outside the U.S. and in Canada, call 1-212-321-5200.

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