I have seen some of the recently released movies, among them "Money Monster" with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. I will resume this blog's intermittent relationship with popular culture by telling you something about this one. Clooney plays the host of the eponymous television show, one based loosely on Jim Cramer's show, "Mad Money." Jim Cramer has been accused of using that program to pump the stocks of some of his Wall Street buddies for them. In fact, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart expressed this opinion in a much-remarked-upon exchange with Cramer. I'm working from memory here, but IIRC Stewart said "I want a smart guy like Jim Cramer to help protect me from ... guys like Jim Cramer!" Clooney's character is all moral ambivalence in the way Stewart's comment suggests. He has the gift for gab more than he has any acute sense of the markets, and he's putting on a show about money in a way that might lead some poo...
