Ep. 984: Hans Greimel and William Sposato Interview with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio

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Michael Covel

Investing, Business

4.6 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

My guests today are Hans Greimel and William Sposato.

Hans is an award-winning American business journalist based in Tokyo, where he serves as Asia Editor for Automotive News, overseeing coverage from Japan, China, and South Korea.

William is a Tokyo-based correspondent and consultant who has been active in Japan for more than twenty years, with senior roles at Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently a writer and regular contributor to Foreign Policy magazine.

The topic is their book Collision Course: Carlos Ghosn and the Culture Wars That Upended an Auto Empire.

In this episode of Trend Following Radio we discuss:

Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn
Bubble Burst
Japanese Economy
Ghosn and Japanese Companies
Carlos Ghosn Arrested in Japan
Carlos Ghosn Charges
Nissan and Renault
Japanese Prison
Japan Food and Culture

Jump in!

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I’m MICHAEL COVEL, the host of TREND FOLLOWING RADIO, and I’m proud to have delivered 10+ million podcast listens since 2012. Investments, economics, psychology, politics, decision-making, human behavior, entrepreneurship and trend following are all passionately explored and debated on my show.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	This is trend following radio where great thinking comes alive.
0:10.9	Nobel Prize winners, legendary traders, bestselling authors, and the pros that know what drive us irrational human beings.
0:21.2	I am your host, Michael Covel, not filtered, raw, honest.
0:27.4	That's my passion.
0:33.4	Now this is a cool, damn story.
0:37.3	Forget all the whatever.
0:39.1	Big headlines and everything.
0:40.8	The nitty gritty, the granular, the big picture.
0:44.3	Just everything.
0:45.9	A fantastic story.
0:48.0	The book.
0:49.3	Collision Course.
0:50.9	Carlos Gone and the Culture Wars that upended an auto empire. Yeah, this is the story about
0:57.5	the auto executive that escaped Japan while he was facing trial for, I guess, purported corruption.
1:05.9	So while he's waiting for trial, he sneaks out of Japan in a guitar case or something like that.
1:13.2	You will hear the details in just a few minutes. But it's a really fabulous story. And my two
1:18.8	guests today, Hans Grimel, William Spasado, two investigative reporters based in Tokyo, dive
1:25.7	deep. This story has all kinds of tentacles, from culture to nationalism, to how we think about
1:33.1	ourselves in our own countries.
1:35.8	It's an interesting parable, an interesting tale.
1:40.3	And as of this moment, Mr. Carlos Gone is living the good life somewhere outside of the long arm of the Japanese law.
1:50.1	You kind of get a feeling this story will make it to the big screen at some point in time.
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