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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent looks on at U.S. President Donald Trump.
Personal Finance
The bond market is crashing Trump’s midterm campaign
By Eva RoytburgSeptember 3, 2026
A man holds an ingot of bullion at the New York Federal Reserve, October 10th 1966.
Personal Finance
As U.S. Treasury intervened in the bond market, the Netherlands rushed 86 tons of gold out of America because of ‘geopolitical unrest’
By Eleanor PringleSeptember 3, 2026
Scott Bessent says 19 of the G20 finance ministers agreed to address ‘cheap imports’ but ‘China was the dissenter’
Economy
Scott Bessent says 19 of the G20 finance ministers agreed to address ‘cheap imports’ but ‘China was the dissenter’
By The Associated Press, Fatima Hussein and Chris RugaberSeptember 2, 2026
US President Donald Trump, right, followed by Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, exit the South Portico of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, DC, US, on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025.
Economy
Trump plans to grow his way out of $40 trillion debt crisis—it’s a ‘fantastic story’ but virtually impossible, says top budget economist
By Eleanor PringleAugust 25, 2026
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Commentary
Scott Bessent and the bond market: a pointless intervention
By Steve H. Hanke and John GreenwoodAugust 24, 2026
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026.
Economy
Wall Street is bemused by Bessent’s bond plan and the unwinding punt on the Japanese yen—he’s hinting he knows something the markets don’t
By Eleanor PringleAugust 21, 2026
Bessent becomes most interventionist Treasury chief in decades
North America
Bessent becomes most interventionist Treasury chief in decades
By Christopher Anstey, Jorgelina do Rosario, Michael Mackenzie, Greg Ritchie and BloombergAugust 20, 2026
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Economy
Scott Bessent on the national debt: ‘There’s nothing magic about the $40 trillion number’
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 20, 2026
A woman inspired by Luigi Mangione to try bombing Scott Bessent gets hit with 6 years in prison
Politics
A woman inspired by Luigi Mangione to try bombing Scott Bessent gets hit with 6 years in prison
By Michael Kunzelman and The Associated PressAugust 19, 2026
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Economy
Top economist on Trump’s ‘deadly cocktail’ for the bond market—and how the bond vigilantes have crossed Scott Bessent’s ‘red line’
By Nick LichtenbergAugust 19, 2026
U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the CBO—having spent $10 billion to prop up the currency of its top lender
Economy
U.S. Treasury is paying $3 billion a day in interest on national debt, says the CBO—having spent $10 billion to prop up the currency of its top lender
By Eleanor PringleAugust 11, 2026
Photo of Scott Bessent with Donald Trump
Economy
How Scott Bessent used financial engineering to finance the $2 trillion deficit while leaving it untouched—and created a $1.45 trillion shortfall
By Eva RoytburgAugust 8, 2026
Scott Bessent stands outside wearing a suit, his hands pressed together as he speaks.
North America
The Trump administration has doled out $100 billion in tariff refunds, but Americans are suing U.S. companies for not seeing a penny of the returns
By Sasha RogelbergAugust 5, 2026
Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump and Lebanon's President Joseph Aoun, not pictured, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 21, 2026.
Economy
Scott Bessent just declared the K-shaped economy is over, saying he’s ‘sick of hearing about’ it—but the data would beg to disagree
By Eleanor PringleAugust 5, 2026
Photo of Bessent at a table with Trump’s cabinet
Economy
Scott Bessent is using moves from his hedge fund days to prop up Japan’s yen—and America’s $40 trillion national debt
By Mia OsmonbekovAugust 4, 2026
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