The Doan's specialty might not have ever become a red-carpet royalty favorite if Diane Keaton hadn’t shared one with her “Mad Money” co-star Katie Holmes sometime around 2008.

His acolytes might have done even worse if they followed his Mad Money recommendation of keeping 10 percent of their portfolio in gold.

Turns out, I was inadvertently following Cramer’s Mad Money rule No. 1: “Pigs get slaughtered.”

Mr. Smith’s show outperformed other programs on the network, including “Mad Money with Jim Cramer,” according to ratings data from Nielsen.

The billionaire Bill Gates recently predicted that oil companies "will be worth very little" in 30 years; CNBC's loudest finance personality, Jim Cramer of Mad Money, has declared he's "done" with fossil fuel stocks.