Scott Bessent: China Builds 100 Coal Plants Per Year, "That Is Not A Clean Energy Race, That Is An Energy Race"
Donald Trump's nominee for Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Sen. Ron Wyden why it is goofy to claim the U.S. is in an "arms race with China for clean energy." SCOTT BESSENT: Senator Wyden, just ...
Scott Bessent vs. Bernie Sanders
Their exchange on the minimum wage shows two views of the world.
5 things the nominee for Treasury Secretary signaled about what markets can expect in a 2nd Trump term
Bessent said he believed Trump's presidency would help "unleash a new economic golden age," which could include more jobs and ...
How Trump’s Treasury Nominee Allegedly Avoided Nearly $1 Million in Taxes
Hedge fund manager Scott Bessent is facing questions about his personal taxes at a hearing on his treasury secretary ...
The ‘Trump bump’ has survived tariff announcements—but will it survive the good, the bad, and the unknown in his cabinet?
Trump's picks fit into three groups: the fortifiers (the good), the detractors (the bad), and the mercurial influencers who ...
Morning Report — Treasury choice touts Trumponomics
Treasury nominee Bessent a shoo-in Trump’s foreign policy steps into unstable world Gaza truce back on track Inauguration Day ...
CBO projects US debt to grow $23.9 trillion in 10 years, not including costs of extending tax cuts
The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars ...
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Treasury Nominee Bessent Defends Trump Policies in Testimony; Promises to Press China to Resume Ag Purchases in Phase 1 Agreement
Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent outlined a three-pronged approach to tariffs during his Senate testimony this week, ...