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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday
Goldman Sachs shorted auto-parts maker Delphi for $140 million and Icahn's High River Limited Partnership feels it's being screwed: Forbes : Carl Icahn's High River Limited Partnership has struck back at Goldman Sachs Group, saying a lending unit of the investment bank owes High River $30.8 million in a short sale that has turned contentious. The short sale involved $140 million...
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
Carl Icahn's High River Limited Partnership has struck back at Goldman Sachs Group, saying a lending unit of the investment bank owes High River $30.8 million in a short sale that has turned contentious. More on Billionaires
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GuruFocus Updates (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
By Greenbackd. Carl Icahn recently gave a guest lecture to Professor Robert Shiller's Yale Financial Markets class. Read more » »
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In a guest lecture recently, Carl Icahn told Yale students that a poem by Rudyard Kipling is one of his favorites. "You should read that poem," Icahn said. From a large monitor at the front of the classroom, he told the students what the poem, "If," means to him. Break it up a little and the famed raider's prose might itself be considered a poem. Read on for...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Market Folly submits: In a recent video courtesy of AcademicEarth , Yale University's renowned Professor of Economics Robert Shiller welcomed Carl Icahn to his classroom for a guest lecture. Embedded below is the video of Carl Icahn's lecture on his career in finance, shareholder activism, and the economies and markets of today. Complete Story »
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market folly (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In a recent video courtesy of AcademicEarth , Yale University's renowned Professor of Economics Robert Shiller welcomed Carl Icahn to his classroom for a guest lecture. Embedded below is the video of Carl Icahn's lecture on his career in finance, shareholder activism, and the economies and markets of today. RSS & Email readers come to the blog to view the video: Carl...
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market folly (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
In a recent video courtesy of AcademicEarth , Yale University's renowned Professor of Economics Robert Shiller welcomed Carl Icahn to his classroom for a guest lecture. Embedded below is the video of Carl Icahn's lecture on his career in finance, shareholder activism, and the economies and markets of today. RSS & Email readers come to the blog to view the video: Carl...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
After a recent guest lecture by Carl Icahn, a Yale student asked the billionaire financier a question. Twice. The student first asks, "After the 1962 debacle where you say you, "blew up" and lost all your money, Mr. Icahn, how did you regain your confidence, and more importantly, how did you regain the confidence of your investors?" As first seen on Academic...
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EconomicPolicyJournal.com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
After a recent guest lecture by Carl Icahn, a Yale student asked the billionaire financier a question. Twice.Courtney Comstock has the play-by-play here.
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DealBreaker (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Watch it on Academic Earth [via BI ] Nice guys, but not too bright, according to Carl, who was addressing a bunch of Yale students via Webcam. He also talks about how he "made a few bucks playin' pokah," Princeton being a better school than Yale (but Yale still being "pretty good"), and the model and car he used to ride just after getting out of school. He seems to have...
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SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Dataram Corporation (NASDAQ: DRAM ), a little Graham net net, against activist investing legend Carl Icahn and his position in Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO ). The idea was simple: Compare the performance of two stocks, one a net net / net cash stock lacking a catalyst, and the other a stock not obviously undervalued on an asset basis, but nonetheless pursued by an activist investor,...
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The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stuff I'm Reading this Morning... Sorkin: Desire to pay back TARP is all about compensation. (DealBook) Carl Icahn to Goldman Sachs: "I'll see you in court." (Forbes) 103 people killed in a Baghdad bomb blast yesterday. (NYP) China executes a rogue securities trader. Pay attention out there in Hedgistan. (Clusterstock) Jeremy Glaser: 6 stocks to avoid now. (Morningstar) A look...
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The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
... his Wall Street office, he told PODER, and Michael Douglas is a good friend. Together, Edelman and Carl Icahn reportedly form the inspiration for the notorious character Gordon Gecko. The dispute has now been resolved and the paintings are set to be returned to Art Basel today. Read the full story on PODER >> Join the conversation about this story » See Also: Former S&C...
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The Reformed Broker (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Stuff I’m Reading this Morning… The SEC hedge fund probe is going deeper. (DealBook) Classic Crudele: What Bernanke should answer for in his hearing today. (NYP) I’m making this one the post of the day: Carl Icahn talks activist investing with Robert Shiller’s financial markets class at Yale. (Greenbackd) Get yourself up to speed and prepared for Friday’s...
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EmailWire.Com (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
(EMAILWIRE.COM, December 02, 2009 ) FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. -- Bankruptcy Creditors\' Service, Inc., published Issue No. 16 of FONTAINEBLEAU BANKRUPTCY NEWS today. The 25-page newsletter contains stories with these headlines: [00198] CARL ICAHN OUTBIDS PENN NATIONAL ON FONTAINEBLEAU ASSETS [00199]...
