With A Historic -150% Net Short Position, Carl Icahn Is Betting On An Imminent Market Collapse

• With A Historic -150% Net Short Position, Carl Icahn Is Betting On An Imminent Market Collapse 
  by Tyler Durden, www.zerohedge.com  
  Over the past year, based on his increasingly more dour media appearances, billionaire Carl Icahn had been getting progressively more bearish. At first, he was mostly pessimistic about junk bonds, saying last May that “what’s even more dangerous than the actual stock market is the high yield market.” As the year progressed his pessimism become more acute and in December he said that the “meltdown in high yield is just beginning.” It culminated in February when he said on CNBC that a “day of reckoning is coming.”
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  Some skeptics thought that Icahn was simply trying to scare investors into selling so he could load up on risk assets at cheaper prices, however that line of thought was quickly squashed two weeks ago when Icahn announced to the shock of ever Apple fanboy that several years after his “no brainer” investment in AAPL, Icahn had officially liquidated his entire stake.
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  As it turns out, Icahn’s AAPL liquidation was just the appetizer of how truly bearish the legendary investor has become.
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