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What Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Milken event (and how his critics responded)
Diane Brady at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles. The big story: Trump’s movie tax may have the ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's opening talk at the Milken conference will set the tone of the power-packed event
The biggest names in business will be hanging on the Treasury Secretary's every word.
Treasury Secretary Bessent tells investors Trump's policies will deliver 'golden age economy'
Treasury Secretary Bessent spoke at the Milken Institute Global Conference and said the Trump administration's policies, ...
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Treasury’s Bessent: Private credit surge underscores need for bank deregulation
The growth of private credit tells me that the regulated banking system has been too tightly constrained,” Scott Bessent said ...
Playbook PM: Bessent’s optimistic pitch
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today made the pitch for investing in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s economic ...
Bessent: Some Trade Deals Might Come as Soon as This Week
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told CNBC Monday that some trade deals might come as soon as this week, with the Trump ...
Bessent Pitches Skittish Investors to Bet on Trump’s Economic Plan
The Treasury secretary urged executives and entrepreneurs to look beyond the Trump administration’s trade agenda.
Scott Bessent tells tariff-bashing Wall Street bigwigs to ‘never bet against America’ — despite growing fears
Bessent, 63, gave a full-throated defense of the commander-in-chief’s America First agenda, predicting that Trump’s trade, ...
Jill Biden, Tony Blair, Scott Bessent, Mehmet Oz at Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills
This conference is where the world comes to connect ideas with capital, science with policy, and vision with action,” said Milken Institute CEO Richard Ditizio. Sessions will be ...
Bessent Seeks to Reassure Investors the U.S. Is Still the ‘Premier Destination’
Some analysts have dubbed the broad-based selloff of U.S. stocks, Treasuries, and the dollar the “Sell America” trade.