Carl Icahn Keeps Billionaires On Tenterhooks

Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn has been squeezing Wall Street and corporate rivals for decades, according to Nathan Vardi of Forbes. Nathan has cited two recent cases where the founder of Icahn Capital Management has been thwarting the efforts of billionaire investor Bill Ackman and Michael Dell of Dell Inc (NASDAQ:DELL). William Ackman is the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management, L.P. In late 2012, he took a massive short position in Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), declaring the nutritional supplement company a pyramid scheme. However, Carl Icahn questioned Ackman’s investment skills in a live showdown on CNBC. During the last few days,…