In a new blog post, Carl Icahn is asking union members to question their leadership as the fight to save Atlantic City’s Taj Mahal hotel – and Icahn’s $285 million investment – is far from over. The question is: who will blink first. Icahn attempt In the blog post, Icahn attempts to create a bond between the union workers at the hotel as he starts the letter with a discussion of his tough upbringing on the streets of Queens. Perhaps providing a bit of an activist manifesto, Icahn lays down his bonafides: “I learned to fight bullies and that was…
Carl Icahn Engages In Game of Chicken Over Taj Mahal
Mark Melin
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.