Before Sears filed for bankruptcy, it was run by a reclusive billionaire who'd call into meetings from his mansion on a Florida island. It was one of the unusual ways Eddie Lampert ran the department store chain. He also stopped investing in the stores. The CEO had outwitted kidnappers, and many thought he was defying skeptics on Wall Street, too. This is the story of how Sears stayed alive so long, and how it all fell apart.
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47: Drinking Buddies: Jack Daniel and Nearest Green
46: Makin' Whoopee Cushion
45: Heard It Through the Grapevine
44: All That Jazzercise
43: A Tale of Two Spams
42: The Widow Clicquot
41: The Red (M&M) Scare
40: The Marlboro Woman
Trailer: We're back!
39: Scoot Over?
38: The Coed Scouts of America
37: Battle of the Brands: Leo Fender vs Les Paul
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36: A town called DISH
35: You've got Enron mail!
34: The Legend of the Atari Burial
33: Muzak listening, and Alexa eavesdropping
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