Treasury Nominee Scott Bessent Defends Trump’s Economic Policy to the Senate
Treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent defended President-elect Donald Trump’s economic strategy in a Senate hearing today.
Bessent to tell senators Trump will usher in ‘economic golden age’
Scott Bessent, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Treasury Department, plans to tell senators during his confirmation ...
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Democrats Parrot Biden’s ‘O-Word’ in Effort To Paint Treasury Nominee Scott Bessent as a Faux Populist
Mr. Bessent called the extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts ‘the single most important economic issue of the day.’ ...
How Scott Bessent Won Over MAGA and Wall Street
Scott Bessent wasn’t a familiar name in Republican political circles before Donald Trump nominated him to be Treasury ...
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The world is waiting to see if Trump 2.0 will be a more disciplined and effective version of its previous, chaotic, ...
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Jens Nordvig built his macro research firm on sourcing and crunching data. He’s detecting profound shifts in behaviour as ...
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‘Economic Calamity’ if Tax Cuts Not Extended, Warns Treasury Nominee
Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent, in his confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, warned that the nation could face an economic crisis if Congress fails to extend the Tax Cuts ...
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 ...