The Learning Annex Weekend

I went to the well advertised in the finance world, "Learning Annex." It was a huge event held at the Jacob Javitz Center in New York City. Imagine this, I had never been in the Javitz Center before this weekend event and I was born in New York!! Crazy I know, but sometimes people who travel to NY see more of the "sights" then those who actually live here. Anyhow, we arrived pretty early that morning as we heard Cramer would be the first speaker bright and early around approximately 8:00 am. We got up to the front where we saw Cramer in person "live" up on stage. (He doesn't look any different from on tv, and that's unusual, they tend to always look pretty different, but not him). He talked to us for about an hour or so telling us the more "interesting" stock information that he's not allowed to talk about on his tv show "Mad Money." Cramer also gave us a number of his best stock picks, blue chips and speculative. In addition, he told us how before he started with all this he was homeless, living in his car and then finally landed a job with Goldman Sachs where the whole investments career began. Now he is super successful with his tv show "Mad Money," his website www.thestreet.com, and his many books.
After Cramer we decided to walk around and check out the other classes. Wow, there were a lot of classes going on everywhere in the Center. We went to listen to James Smith another real estate investment tycoon, who gave us many hints and tips about investing in real estate and of course didn't forget to tell everyone to sign up for his real estate boot camp.
That same day Tony Robbins was also there. He spent over two hours with us, pumping up the audience, had everyone jumping up and down and really working on high energy.
The day was pretty long from a little before 8:00 am all the way to about 7:00 pm, then we had our drive home from the city. There were more people going into the city on a Saturday night than leaving, so traffic wasn't too bad. :-)