Herb's Hotline: Icahn's Foray Into J.C. Penney and Nosing Around Nordstrom

Thoughts, observations and other musings:

So Carl the Icahn is thinking about snapping up some shares of J.C. Penney (JCP Quote). What a Bowser (Penney, that is, though with this word to the wise: The only person who gets rich off Icahn deals is Icahn).

The best part about the Penney at the Garden State Plaza in Paramus (out here in Jersey's Tomatoland, though in my two years here I've neither seen nor eaten one) is that it's the best shortcut to Nordstrom's (JWN Quote). ...