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Why this famous raider is scooping up debt
Barron's
02 Dec 2008
02 Dec 2008
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07 January 2009
23:14 GMT
What a difference two decades makes. In the 1980s, Carl Icahn loomed large as a corporate raider, in the mold of the Gordon Gekko character in the movie Wall Street. Icahn made a lot of money but was vilified for what some considered a slash-and-burn approach to taking over companies.
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