Talk:Carl Icahn/Archives/2015

Activist

He is referred to as an activist in the lead paragraph but there is not a section on his activism.

Article reads like a PR biography

The leading candidate for the Republican nomination for president of the U.S. is currently mentioning Carl Icahn in almost every speech or interview. Donald Trump is saying that the government needs people with Icahn's managerial and entrepreneurial skills, and Trump is predicting that Icahn would be at least a trusted adviser if not a member of his cabinet (U.S. Treasury Secretary?) if he became president.

This article does not give a balanced view of Icahn for the many readers who will be coming to Wikipedia to learn more about a man who a potential president considers a candidate for a role in his administration.

Specifically, there is not a word about the effects on employment of the methodologies Icahn has famously employed in his business career. To wit: He is best known for causing major job losses in his "restructuring" of the businesses he has acquired.

This should be an important bullet point in a Carl Icahn biography for a general non-business reader. Yet the bulk of the article just details a lengthy chronology of his buying, selling, slicing, and dicing of companies that he bought, and a whole section devoted to the various schools and hospitals to which he has given money in order to secure his name on their buildings and gain society's admiration and respect that his slicing and dicing strategies did not confer. In my opinion, that philanthropy should be deprecated to his cut-throat business tactics that made him the fortune from which he donated a relatively tiny amount to charity.

He is no Bill Gates. Readers need to know the real role he has played in American business as it relates to the issues that affect their lives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.232.77 (talk) 00:02, August 24, 2015‎