Trump Wants To Team Up With Icahn, Use His Deal Making Skills For U.S. Trade

Mark Melin

Published onJune 19, 2015

Updated on May 13, 2021

After announcing his presidential bid, saying “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created,” Donald Trump has an idea on who might best execute such an economic program. And his name is Carl Icahn, and he may want him to help negotiate trade deals.

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Trump knows the “smartest guys on Wall Street,” wants market practitioners and business leaders in government

Trump knows his way around Wall Street, having most recently worked with the hedge fund...

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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.

Trump Wants To Team Up With Icahn, Use His Deal Making Skills For U.S. Trade

Trump knows the “smartest guys on Wall Street,” wants market practitioners and business leaders in government

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