Scott Bessent

President Trump Owes His Base Strong Words About the Weak Dollar

There are no benefits to be had from a weak dollar. None. To suggest there are is the equivalent of saying a basketball player benefits from a shrinking inch and foot that will make him taller in shorter feet and inches. Reality always intrudes.  What’s true about length is true about money precisely because money […]

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The Capacity for People to Prosper Is Limitless

Washington Post columnist Catherine Rampell writes that Scott Bessent “is using all the budget high jinks at his disposal to produce a pseudoscientific plan that’s rosier, more magical and more paper-thin than the past several decades of GOP budget fantasies.” As a former macro trader, Bessent would no doubt share Rampell’s disdain for rosy economic plans after

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