Can Europe sell America?

欧洲能将美国卖出吗?

The Indicator from Planet Money

2026-01-27

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“Sell America.” There’s new talk of how Europe could turn the economic screws on the U.S. after President Trump’s play for Greenland. Selling U.S. Treasury bonds is one way. Another is a legal tool. It’s been called the EU’s bazooka. On today’s show, taking stock of Europe’s financial arsenal. How could America’s largest foreign lender lighten Americans’ wallets? Planet Money wrote a book and is going on tour, come see us: tickets and tour dates here.  Related episodes: Davos drama, credit card caps and tariff truthsWhy Trump resurrected the Monroe DoctrineLunch with the man who coined TACO For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org. Fact-checking by Sierra Juarez. Music by Drop Electric. Find us: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Newsletter. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy
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  • Planet Money is going on a book tour.

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  • NPR.

  • The boiling of tensions in Europe over US President Trump and Greenland have subsided to this somewhat uneasy summer.

  • But Europe is still on edge.

  • Let's start with French President Emmanuel Macron last week on stage at Davos in his aviator sunglasses.

  • The sunglasses were for an eye condition, by the way.

  • OK, yes, we need to be clear about that.

  • And Macron talked about the ways Europe could respond to bullying by other countries.

  • Europe has very strong tools now, and we have to use them when we are not respected.

  • And when the rules of the game are not respected,

  • by the way, the anti-corruption mechanism is a powerful instrument.

  • And we should not hesitate to deploy it in today's tough environment.

  • The anti-coercion mechanism, sometimes called the EU's Bazooka.