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Someone brought to my attention that none other than Jim Cramer – – who, inexplicably, is considered some kind of stock market god – – strongly suggested everyone buy Sears back in 2007, calling it “the next Berkshire Hathaway”. It looks like he made this urgent “buy” suggestion at pretty much the millisecond the stock peaked. It is down over 99% now. I wonder if they ever mention this on CNBC?
On University Avenue, in downtown Palo Alto, a store opened up about a year ago called David’s Tea. As much as I like tea (particularly a chai latte), I’ve never walked into the place. It looks like a makeup store to me.
In any case, I had no idea they were public, but apparently they are with the ticker DTEA. Here is their chart’s recent history. As you can see, something rather unusual happened recently.
