Speculation has swirled in recent weeks that the underlying real estate value in a Home Depot transaction might present the same type of appeal to Lampert that it did in the Sears deal.
Put simply, there are generally no underlying exports, jobs or people-to-people contact of the type that leads to substantial lobbying on Capitol Hill and within the Executive Branch by influential members of the business community.
Nowadays we tend to interpret any type of character or behaviour that departs from our standards of tepid normality as a symptom of some underlying disorder.