Hello and welcome to the Time Stack podcast where every week we unpack how technology is reshaping business, culture and everyday life.

I am Danny Fortson here in Silicon Valley.

And I'm Katie Prescott here in London.

Danny, we are, neither of us at all for once

where the action is. Are you sad? I am actually. The action, I would say this week, is in Davos,

where all the world leaders are gathered together in the middle of what feels like total chaos.

And actually, I'm not normally jealous about people who go to Davos, but I do feel a bit of

FOMO.

Seeing your esteemed president confusing the names of Greenland and Iceland.

They both have land in the name.

I guess both cold places in front of such an extraordinary audience of tech leaders and business

leaders and government leaders while all of this is exploding would be really cool.

Well, so should we just set the scene?

What is exploding?

Because I think this kind of gets to the big question

that we're going to try to talk about this week.

So your esteemed President Donald Trump wants Greenland,

or Iceland,

and has been threatening tariffs on European countries

that don't agree with the plan.

He now seems to have rode back on that idea, maybe, who knows,

but I have to say, it has made a lot of big players here in Europe incredibly nervous.

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