Donald Trump is always presented as the defender of the American foot. The man who will make industrial activity back home. Sometimes that comes to difficult ends to believe. For example, when he campaigned in South Carolina (where he swept), Trump promised to bring back the factories that had gone to Asia. The problem is that these factories were now looms in Bangladesh, pay their workers less than 100 euros per month. Apparently, those are the jobs that await the 10 million people who, today, have voted for the employer.
The contradiction is more apparent if one considers who are the entrepreneurs and managers who so far have shown more support for Donald Trump, to the point that some have already begun to sound like possible Treasury secretaries if the Republican wins the election of November. In general, they are not large industry executives, but quite the opposite: financiers of Wall specialized in operations based on contract massive debts using as collateral the companies that bought Street, and often desguazaban to return the money and stay the dividend. If it sounds the character of Richard Gere in Pretty Woman or Michael Douglas in Wall Street, it is because those investors largely inspired the writers of those movies.
Carl Icahn, the shark of Wall Street obvious example is Carl Icahn, who has had a love-hate relationship with Trump is now under infatuation. Icahn is the encyclopedic definition of shark Wall Street, with the possible exception of another ally Trump, Henry Kravis, one of whose operations inspired a book that led to the separation that He is the only Hollywood film about a takeover bid hostile, Barbarians at the Gate. That is, Barbarians at the Gates, which Kravis and its partners in the private equity fund KKR (one of whose K is precisely the Kravis) take to assault the food multinational Nabisco and then dismembered. The same Nabisco has become the favorite target of Donald Trump to announce that Mexico will move manufacturing plant Oreos, very popular cookies in the US.
With an estimated by Bloomberg at 20,300 million dollars (17,670 million euros) fortune, Icahn is, at 80 years, probably the person closest to Wall Street Trump. It is, as the developer, casino manager and star of reality shows, a character. His list of companies that have bought, or in whose capital has entered to gain representation on the board of directors and force managers to raise the dividend would occupy all this newspaper
Suffice it, however, say that he was born the term asset stripping, that is, remove (or undressing) assets. It's what he did with that once was the US flagship airline, TWA, which bought in the 80s and then was slicing to take her to a debt restructuring and virtually destroy it. In the process, Icahn earned about 500 million dollars 80, now, after inflation, would be 835 million dollars. If it sounds to what Gordon Gekko (played by Michael Douglas) wanted to do with the airline that is about to buy on Wall Street is purely coincidental
The business has achieved over the last two years another feat: that Apple holds a massive buyback financed with debt (rather than with the more than 216,000 million (188,000 million) that the company has so up the value of shares held by Icahn. in fact became so optimistic Apple said its shares come to be worth $ 240, but that was wrong. the titles were on Wednesday to $ 99 and the investor himself had sold for weeks at a price of $ 120.
Henry Kravis, the king of the 'best-sellers'
Henry Kravis is of the same rope Icahn. At 72, and with a heritage that Bloomberg estimated at 4,200 million dollars (3,660 million euros), he is the visible face of tiburoneo 80s and resurrection in the first decade of the century. He has not inspired movies, but books. Since Apostles Debt, where the operations of private equity fund he created with Gerome Kohlberg and Craig Roberts, KKR until Bonfire of the Vanities, the acclaimed best-selling novel by Tom Wolfe that includes a lurid description of analyzing the horterísima house an investor who is based in Kravis, which looks like a case of horror vacui, ie the term in the Baroque was used to designate the tendency not to leave a single empty space, without furniture, a box or curtain.
The former president of General Electric, among alliesTrump also has other supporters, though not as close as Icahn and Kravis. One is Jackson Welch, former chairman of General Electric. In theory, Welch breaks the pattern allies Trump, because General Electric is not a company based on speculation ... Of course, if it is not, it is because Welch did not work out his plan for the company. In the 90s, under his direction, the industrial giant came massively in the financial world, to the point that I had to be rescued by the government of George W. Bush in 2008 after the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Today, the company has sold its finance division to Goldman Sachs. General Electric also was sanctioned by regulators for taking advantage of its enormous complexity to manipulate their results during the era in which Welch directed.
In any case, Welch represents at least a departure from pure financial operations Icahn and Kravis. And there are also people who are not specialized in short and Dodge supports Trump, but without the enthusiasm of those financial statements. For example, the banker, power player and mathematician Andrew Beal (6,600 million dollars worth). Or the hawk on monetary policy at Stanford University, John Taylor. Or the real estate investor Thomas Barack. They are the few entrepreneurs who defend Trump, a candidate who is seen by Wall Street with a suspicion that masterfully summed up the CEO of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein: "I do not want him to be the one with the finger on the nuclear button" .
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