Like him or hate him, it's a fact that Jim Cramer is one of the personalities in the financial media that investors can certainly talk about. He's an opinionated individual with very strong views on the key stocks he likes and has continued to hold. His table-pounding recommendations of Nvidia ( NASDAQ:NVDA), which he is still pounding the table on, have turned out gloriously. However, some of his other picks have turned out, shall we say, less profitably for investors.
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