Adam Tooze

We've had von der Leyen.

The gossip is that he was high as a kite, to be absolutely honest, and he came across that way.

I mean, he was jolly.

It was a disinhibited speech.

It was crazy.

He made a reference to dick size as whether or not this was going to be like this was driving it.

He told him to fuck off.

It's wild.

So then I had the pleasure, it turned out, of hosting Howard Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary, and his embarrassed analogs, Rachel Reeves, who's the UK Treasury Secretary, and Minister Champagne of Canada.

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.