'We Are In DEFCON 3, Two Stages Away From A Financial Collapse So Huge It's Hard To Get Your Mind Around'

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Forget today's rally.

In his opening segment on Mad Money tonight (via The Fly) Jim Cramer warns that Europe could easily spoil any party we're having in the U.S. due to the collapse in credit.

He walks through a fairly long (but very basic) explanation of what credit is, and how central it is to the economy, before (around the 6:30 mark) declaring that we're in "DEFCON 3, two stages from a financial collapse so huge it's hard to get your mind around."

If the videos aren't working for you, see them here and here.