Part Two: The Rise of the "Activist" Investor
Bill Ackman, the self-styled activist investor and Harvard MBA pirate, goes from corporate raider glory to public humiliation after a series of disastrous bets — most notably the JC Penney fiasco and his billion-dollar crusade against Herbalife — only to later morph into a MAGA-aligned id
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