Matt Levine, Columnist

Carlos Ghosn Is Back in Corporate Housing

Also swap manipulation, Vision rigor and quantum finance.

January 6, 2020 at 5:23 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Happy new decade! The best business story of last decade snuck in under the wire, when Carlos Ghosn, the former head of Nissan Motor Co. and Renault SA who was out on bail in Japan awaiting trial on charges of financial misconduct, popped up in Lebanon just before New Year’s after being smuggled out of Japan in, apparently, a large black case used for audio equipment. I have spent much of the last week reading accounts of his escape and I am nowhere close to tired of them; Bloomberg has a great one this morning.

But this one from the Wall Street Journal on Friday has maybe my favorite detail so far, about what Ghosn has been up to since his escape:

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