Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent
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His fate is an increasingly open question among Wall Street and DC insiders.
From Vanity Fair
"President Trump created maximum negotiating leverage for himself," Bessent told reporters.
From Reuters
President Trump was asked during a Thursday cabinet meeting to respond to the stock market on Thursday, but he said he hadn’t seen it because he has been tied up in meetings.
From Wall Street Journal
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The Nation on MSNScott Bessent Is Doing a Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad JobWhen hedge-fund billionaire Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent was nominated last fall by Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 79th Secretary of the Treasury, the thinking from optimistic observers was that — in contrast to the clown-car crew that was circling around the president-elect —he might be something of an adult in the room.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent recently said cheap goods are not the American dream. He's right, and it requires a change in thinking about the economy.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that he expects a couple big deals “very quickly” in relation to President Trump’s latest tariff announcement. “We have one of the
Scott Bessent said on television that most people ... it’s easy to fall into the trap of anchoring to your own stage and place in life. Most employers are good about nudging investors into ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. holds the upper hand in its budding trade war with China and called the Asian giant’s retaliation a “mistake” on Tuesday. “I think it was a ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted China's retaliatory tariff play as a "loser" move on Wednesday, telling FOX Business that the proportionality in the country's ongoing trade war with the U ...
There’s little precedent for completing such a large volume of sweeping, wide-ranging and accelerated trade negotiations.