Talk:Eddie Lampert

Directorships
Lampert does not appear to be a current director for AutoZone, see AutoZone's own list of officers and directors, although Yahoo Finance shows him as a "beneficial owner" (whatever that means) --Georgeryp 17:31, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

According to the Autozone SC 13D/A SEC filing on 9/28/06, he stepped down from the board of directors of Autozone. He is also stepping from the board of AutoNation, effective May '07. (SC 13D/A on 3/26/07). Once he steps down from AutoNation, I'll change them both in one clean swoop. Sentineneve 02:26, 17 April 2007 (UTC)


 * Eh. I lied. Sort of fixed. Sentineneve 17:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

Full Biography
A good article with tons of biographical information to cite that could be used on Wikipedia, for anyone more interested in thoroughly filling the Wikipedia entry: http://money.cnn.com/2006/02/03/news/companies/investorsguide_lampert/index.htm Cypher056 (talk) 20:17, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

Does it mention his current method of ramming Sears and Kmart into the iceberg? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.197.144.134 (talk) 04:58, 20 November 2017 (UTC)

Jew
The article doesn't seem to have a single reference verifying that he is Jewish. Moreover, Category:People by religion makes it clear that such categories are reserved for people "whose religious association is or was a defining characteristic or related to their notability." Shawn in Montreal (talk) 15:29, 2 October 2014 Not that it matters, but basis for the supposition that Lampert is Jewish?

Rand
The (removed) material pertaining to Rand was not supported by the sited sources. The source cited for the claim that he's an "avid follower" of Rand, in fact just says that he's a fan of her novels. And the Salon piece sited for the claim that he based business decisions on her ideas, doesn't tell of any business decision that Lampert made based on any idea he got from Rand (as opposed to from free market writers in general). The most one can say based n these sources is that he was a fan of Rand's work, and that doesn't seem to be to be worthy of a sentence. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.6.36.123 (talk) 02:42, 17 February 2016 (UTC)
 * It seems to me that it's rather your own summary here that is misleading and not supported by the cited sources. E.g. you claim that the Bloomberg article "just says that he's a fan of her novels", but it actually says " An outspoken advocate of free-market economics and fan of the novelist Ayn Rand" (i.e. of the person, in connection with her well-known ideology, not just of books read for entertainment).
 * See also this PBS article.
 * Regards, HaeB (talk) 20:44, 21 February 2016 (UTC)

Citation 17 relating to Rand is clearly related to Lampert destroying his business empire. I have amended the article as such, and had it reversed by some vandal. Please respect the content of citations and let the article reflect so. Edit: In fact citation 16 backs up that Lambert employed Rand's philosophy in the destruction of business empire too. I think there is a case here to ban Angelfatal for his/her deliberate valdalism of this article for reversing my revision in line with the content of the two citations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.140.149.154 (talk) 05:21, 15 October 2018 (UTC)

"Fast Eddie?"
I've started to see commenters and journalists refer to Lapert by the nickname "Fast Eddie", though this seems to be a recent development and derogatory in nature. Can anyone trace this nickname back to an origin? And would it be appropriate at this time to add something in his article about this?

here's a Forbes article that demonstrates this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenshoulberg/2018/10/09/got-592-million-you-could-buy-sears-and-penney/#5abcd3023db6

"'Looking at the stock prices of these two companies, you find Sears trading at a little under $0.60 a share. That’s down from its 52-week high of about $7 and off about gazillion percent from the early days of Fast Eddie Lampert’s reign when the share price was in the $160 range.'"

Specter Koen (talk) 02:17, 10 October 2018 (UTC)