{"id":9244,"date":"2008-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"why-this-famous-raider-is-scooping-up-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2008\/why-this-famous-raider-is-scooping-up-debt.html","title":{"rendered":"Why This Famous Raider Is Scooping Up Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barron &#8211; In the 1980s, Carl Icahn loomed large as a corporate raider, in the mold of the Gordon Gekko character in the movie <em>Wall Street<\/em>. Icahn made a lot of money but was vilified for what some considered a slash-and-burn approach to taking over companies. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty years later, Icahn has morphed into a shareholder activist and rails against what he considers to be incompetence among senior executives and on boards. &quot;They call me raider. They call me an activist,&quot; says Icahn, who, at 72, shows no sign of slowing down. &quot;I don&#8217;t know what those labels mean. All I know is that something should be done to improve corporate governance and management. If we don&#8217;t, managements will remain unaccountable and our economy will suffer.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/online.barrons.com\/article\/SB122790834180565221.html%3Fmod%3Dgooglenews_barrons\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barron &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1330,2796,606,3943,147,716,3941,3942,154,47,2060],"class_list":["post-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bitz","tag-dealer-operations","tag-edhec","tag-government-guarantees","tag-journalism","tag-pariah","tag-peabody","tag-pre-market","tag-sharkwatch","tag-third-party","tag-yahoo-shares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}