I only recently learned how to pronounce this fellow's name! The "s" is silent, and the name rhymes with "Lone." That's one of the minor revelations of a fascinating Bloomberg feature about how and why Carlos Ghosn, the grim faced fellow portrayed here, was taken down when he was. To review: In November, authorities in Japan arrested Ghosn on complicated charges of financial fraud and less complicated charges of tax cheating. This is huge in the world auto industry. Ghosn was the chairman of the board at both Nissan and of Renault, and the central figure in the historic alliance between the two. That alliance had recently (2016) added Mitsubishi to the fold. So: what does Bloomberg have to tell us, aside from the useful pronunciation reference? It is perhaps unsurprising that someone of Ghosn's prominence and wealth had rivals and, one may plainly say, enemies. Among them, apparently, was his own second-in-command at one of the three allied c...
