Succes schreef op 19 januari 2026 15:38:
Europe can wield this $8 trillion ‘sell America’ weapon as Trump reignites a trade war over his Greenland conquest ambitions
...But the U.S. has a key vulnerability the EU can exploit, according to George Saravelos, head of FX research at Deutsche Bank.
“Europe owns Greenland, it also owns a lot of Treasuries,” he wrote in a note on Sunday."........“European countries own $8 trillion of US bonds and equities, almost twice as much as the rest of the world combined,” Saravelos pointed out. “In an environment where the geoeconomic stability of the western alliance is being disrupted existentially, it is not clear why Europeans would be as willing to play this part.”....
fortune.com/2026/01/18/europe-retalia...