Last week President-elect Trump named self-made billionaire businessman Carl Icahn as special adviser to the president on overhauling regulations.
The “blue collar” investor, from Far Rockaway, Queens, who has spent a lifetime taking stakes in and taking over dysfunctional companies and turning them around for the benefit of shareholders, knows business.
Some call him an activist — not unfair, but I see him as more of a bad-board vigilante.
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