Gordon Gekko has changed a lot.
In Oliver Stone's
Wall Street
(1987), Michael Douglas embodied this character of an unscrupulous financier, a perfect specimen of the golden age of stock market blows.
In real life, the model was called Carl Icahn, formidable raider, pioneer of the universe of hedge funds.
Today Carl Icahn is 86 years old and he is still a very famous investor.
On Sunday, he again attacked an icon of American business: McDonald's.
The usual method of destabilization: Icahn claims two seats on the board.
But this time, it's not about influencing the company's strategy.
Carl Icahn wants McDonald's to clean up its pork supply chain.
The company, he says, needs to move much faster in its commitment to stop buying from breeders who use gestation crates for sows.
The wolf of Wall Street takes up the cause of mother pigs.
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