When the Wolves Bite: Two Billionaires, One Company, and an Epic Wall Street Battle, Wapner Scott

With their unprecedented amounts of capital and their savvy understanding of business, activist investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman have the ability to move markets and change the fortunes of investors, workers, and even large companies with the flick of a wrist. But what happens when they run into the one thing in business they cant control: each other?

On January 25, 2013, Scott Wapner, the host of CNBCs The Halftime Report, found out firsthand. Ackman and Icahn engaged in an uninterrupted, twenty-seven-minute televised war of accusations and insults over a company called Herbalife, on which they had opposing views--and opposing financial bets. The story quickly went viral and was called the best business television ever by Jim Cramer.