“I am urging people to recognize that housing is not that important to this economy,” Cramer said during Tuesday’s Stop Trading!.

“There is no bubble in gold,” Cramer declared on Wednesday. “It is a genuine multiyear rally.”

He thinks the move in gold is “just beginning,” and he wants investors to own some. So what’s the best play?

“Ford is the better company, hands down,” Cramer said, “and given the valuations people are talking about for GM, Ford’s stock should go through the roof.”

“I would urge people to recognize,” Cramer said, “that this is the world’s greatest retailer.”

Any dips in gold’s price these days are “gifts,” Cramer said during Friday’s “Stop Trading.”

The “Mad Money” host was emphatic that gold was now a currency and not a commodity, and therefore investors shouldn’t treat the precious metal as if it were, say, copper. Plus, gold’s popularity among the growing middle classes of China and India, in addition to the lack of new, viable mines coming online, have created a classic supply-and-demand situation, and that is what’s driving up the price. He expects that price to reach $2,000 about five years from now.