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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 ...
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.
Economic upheaval takes center stage at Milken
President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the economy — and U.S. financial markets in particular — is likely to be a prevailing ...
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 ...
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Bessent states in Congress that he considers Putin war criminal
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated during a hearing in Congress that he considers Vladimir Putin a war criminal, Kyiv ...
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, ...
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.