Adam Tooze

Mark Carney was speaking and apparently gave like, he just flamed the Americans while we were on the panel.

Stemwinder.

And then we had CEO of Bank of America and CEO of Ernest & Young to kind of give us the business perspective.

And I mean, I love doing this kind of like high wire chairing.

I don't need to tell you.

It has its own fascination, its own dynamic energy.

And we were brief to wind things up a little bit.

We were told not to play things down.

So I didn't.

And I just asked, bluntly asked, like essentially, because Lutnik presents himself as the- You bluntly asked about Greenland.

Well, I mean, he set himself up because he came into the green room, like boasting about all the money he was mobilizing.

So I was like quizzing him a bit.

And at some point he literally said, you got to understand when it comes down to it, I am quote of the hammer.

Like it's like some, you know, some ambulance chaser advertising on the New York subway.

He referred to himself- As the hammer.

Yeah.

So gift to moderator-

Mr. Commerce Secretary, on the one hand, I hear all the Berlin energy, and then I hear this note of menace.

How would you anticipate Europeans, who are not fundamentally differently wired than you, reacting to this kind of mixture?

That didn't go very well.