The money quote "The usual suspects argued that Mr. Lampert was playing a deeper game by liquidating the company out of court, but that only made sense if you didn’t know how to read a balance sheet or took daily doses of peyote"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaellewitt/2018/11/07/do-not-resuscitate-the-saga-of-sears-hedge-fund-hubris-and-media-ignorance/#3ffd70832148