text: This very public failure is good news for anybody not holding Pershing shares.
  
  Ackman's style of activism is not healthy for capital markets generally.
  
  Focusing on short term share appreciation rather than growing or building solid companies is parasitic, plain and simple.
  
  If you look at Berkshire Hathaway as another style of activism that has been prove as a sustainable way to be involved, you will see how it should be done.