Economics

Icahn ‘Hopeful’ Trump Wins Presidency on Economic Stance

  • Billionaire investor speaks by phone live on CNBC Tuesday
  • Carl Icahn acknowledges Trump ‘made mistakes’ last week

Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn.

Photographer: Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg
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Investor Carl Icahn said he is “very hopeful” that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will win in November, praising the nominee’s economic policy speech on Monday.

“If he sticks with that economic theme, he should definitely win hands down
because I don’t know why you wouldn’t vote for him,” Icahn said Tuesday in a live phone-in interview with CNBC.