Larry Summers is fed up with the tariff defense made by his successor, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Summers, who served as treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton, blasted Bessent’s ...

President Donald Trump’s decision to pause the implementation of his tariff agenda underlines a reshuffling of his trade messaging, or at least the messengers seeking to ease concerns among the ...

That’s the message from US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent who says that stock market corrections, even when they have seen around $5 trillion wiped off the value of US equities in the last ...

Scott Bessent is staking out a leadership role for the Treasury Department in the Trump administration’s deregulatory campaign. In a speech to The Economic Club of New York Thursday, the ...

Bessent has been a major donor to Trump, giving $1 million to the Republican candidate for his 2016 inauguration. On Friday, President-Elect Donald Trump picked pro-crypto hedge fund manager Scott ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says there is an audit ... authorized personnel to access the vaults was President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since then, the vaults have been opened one other time ...

Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent discusses Americans’ recession fears as President Donald Trump escalates trade wars. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) weighs in on the Democratic Party’s divide over ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday that "there are no guarantees" when it comes to a potential recession hitting the United States. "Like who would have predicted COVID?" Bessent told ...

(Bloomberg) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent can’t stop talking about ... echoing an argument he’d laid in appearance on CBS, CNBC and at the Economic Club of New York.

despite earlier comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that indicated a possible delay in their activation. "The intent is to enact tariffs on April 2," the official said when asked to ...