Is it time for a miracle on 34th Street? Motley Full Money. I'm Deidro Willard here with Motley Full analyst

Jason Moser. Jason, how is your weekend?

It was a good weekend, Deidor. How about yours?

Pretty good. I'm starting to, every Sunday though. I start looking at the laptop. I start wondering what the news is.

You know, last few Sundays have been pretty good for me as a news junkie and did not disappoint this weekend.

The hot rumor, the rumor that is sort of dominating the stock market today too

is that Macy's might be acquired and taken private for 5.8 billion.

This is with a couple of private equity funds,

including Ark House Management and Brigade Capital Management.

I mean, the deal would be for around a premium of 32% for shareholders based on when the deal was announced

or was it like brought up at the end of November.

Stock has been battered around for a bit so that that is a premium based on where we were but not not from where the stock has been over time but then today the stock has been up practically to the level of $21 a share. Is this a deal that

shareholders should want? If I were a shareholder, which I'm not, but if I were I

would think so, yes. I mean we've talked about Macy's I think for for a number of

years on these on these shows and we've kind of always just come back to the same

ultimate conclusion is just it's a business that just remains challenged because it maybe it's not really necessarily a Macy's world anymore right?

I think Ron Gross years back asked the question

Does the world really need J.C. Penny, right?

When we were talking about J.C. Penny's woes, I feel like that question more or less

applies here to at least to a degree, right?

I mean, Macy's has more or less been treading water here over the last several

years trying to figure out the most sensible path forward I mean when you look at

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