Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer 8/14/26

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**Jim Cramer** (1:02)
My mission is simple, to make you money. I'm here to level the playing field for all investors. There's always a bull market somewhere, and I promise to help you find it. Mad Money starts now.
True Cray Americans know that our team loves nothing more than getting off this set and out into the wild to find and tell powerful stories. You'd be amazed at what you can learn when you get out of New York and put boots on the ground, whether it be in Silicon Valley, the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, or the Heartland. The goal is to celebrate American innovation. Tonight we look back on a very special trip we took to bluegrass country, an inspiring way to invest in America. For years, America's small towns have watched manufacturing and innovation depart. Now, though, Apple and CEO Tim Cook are committing big money to bring them back, and there's no better place to start our program today on Main Street itself. Here it is.
Well, Tim, we're in downtown Harrisburg. You talked about the ripple effect. Is this it?

**Tim Cook** (2:10)
This is it. It really makes my heart sing. To see a town that is doing so well, that's thriving off of Corning, and our relationship with Corning is at the root of that. And so it feels fantastic.

**Jim Cramer** (2:26)
Now, there are other towns, of course, that didn't get blessed by two companies that care as much as you and Corning do. The atmosphere is very different, isn't it?

**Tim Cook** (2:36)
Well, we can't, you know, we can't be everywhere. I wish we could.
But we are putting $600 billion to work in the next four years. And so it is an extraordinary commitment. And there's 79 factories across the US that will benefit from this.

**Jim Cramer** (2:54)
But don't you think you'd have to put up 10 times that? If you're just to be able to say, I mean, look, you've got to put the money where you promised the president, you're going to put it to work.

**Tim Cook** (3:03)
Yes, we are putting it to work. And...

**Jim Cramer** (3:07)
But $2.5 billion is a drop in the bucket of what you have to do.

**Tim Cook** (3:11)
$2.5 is just one of those 79
And so one of the 79 And so it's a great start and a very important one because the glass is something you interface with all the time, right, on your phone. And we couldn't be prouder of the relationship that we've built up over what is now since the first iPhone in 2007

**Jim Cramer** (3:36)
Now, when you speak about the ripple effect, it's not just what it does with towns. I imagine that there will be companies, foreign companies, that will say, okay, I now have to put a factory there because Apple's there and they're building a supply chain and I can be part of it.

**Tim Cook** (3:52)
That's right. That's the ripple effect.
If we come, there will be more companies coming. That's a domino effect kind of thing.

**Jim Cramer** (4:01)
It's better than anything the government can do, isn't it?

**Tim Cook** (4:04)
I think the...

**Jim Cramer** (4:06)
Enterprise versus government.

**Tim Cook** (4:08)
I think the government has a role in terms of the regulation kind of role in setting the leadership, which the president has clearly done. He's really stated his objective to get more and more manufacturing into the United States. And so, I think there's a role for each party.

**Jim Cramer** (4:30)