Crystal Ball

By Val Castronovo, Matthew Cooper, Rachel Dry, Daren Fonda, Frank Gibney, Ellin Martens, Benjamin Nugent, Julie Rawe, Max Smith and Josh Tyrangiel

"I am not a Paul Allen groupie. Actually, to be honest, I am kind of sick of hearing about his world-domination plans." --James Cramer, July 15, 1999, Yahoo chat room

James Cramer's website, TheStreet.com last week received a $7.5 million infusion, in part from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

"I guess I didn't know what the heck I was talking about." --James Cramer Aug. 9, 2000, e-mail to Inside.com