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The US president, once again, attacked the independent head of the United States' central bank, accusing him of not lowering ...
U.S. Treasury Scott Bessent is privately meeting with banking regulators as he pushes to streamline oversight and ease ...
Scott Bessent may have the unhappiest job in Washington, D.C. As President Trump's Treasury secretary, he's a point man in ...
US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick on Sunday said that tariff exemption on electronics were temporary and new duties wo ...
US China trade war April 16 highlights: California Governor Gavin Newsom has declared that the state is taking legal action ...
If Trump’s tariff policies continue to raise everyday costs while also crippling the stock market, voters will resoundingly reject Republicans next fall.
As we’ve been reporting, US Vice-President JD Vance says there is a “good chance” that the US and UK will come to a mutually ...
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Scott Bessent Is Not Our Economic Savior
Scott Bessent is having a moment. “Wall Street’s Best Hope to End Trump’s Global Trade War Is One of Its Own,” says The Wall Street Journal. “Bessent Emerges As Man of the Hour Trade Negotiator,” says ...
He did the U.K. a favor in 1992 by forcing a change in monetary policy. Maybe he can do the same on tariffs.
The treasury secretary wants to build a safe space for volatile US government debt on banks’ balance sheets. It may not be so ...
We asked readers who were on the cusp of retirement whether they were watching the markets. About 400 replied.
But they weren’t “afraid,” as Trump asserted. Rather, Bessent made a trillion-dollar bet on the bond markets, and in the long ...