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Banking

Bessent’s visit to Minnesota comes with more vows to crack down on fraud as tensions flare with state, Somalia government

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
January 9, 2026
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Economy

Argentina has repaid its $20 billion credit line from Trump administration, Scott Bessent says

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January 9, 2026
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Economy

Under Biden, America got 150 countries to agree a 15% global corporate tax. Under Trump, America gets an exemption

By Fatima Hussein and The Associated Press
January 5, 2026
Scott Bessent speaks with Andrew Ross Roskin at Dealbook Summit
Law

Treasury Secretary Bessent insists Trump’s tariff agenda is ‘permanent,’ saying the White House can re-create it even with a Supreme Court loss

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December 5, 2025
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Economy

Tariffs and the $38 trillion national debt: Kevin Hassett sees ’big reductions’ in deficit while Scott Bessent sees a ‘shrinking ice cube’

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December 4, 2025
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Banking

‘We’re going to veto them’: Bessent backs new rules to give White House more power over Federal Reserve

By Christopher Rugaber and The Associated Press
December 3, 2025
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Economy

Scott Bessent calls the Giving Pledge well-intentioned but ‘very amorphous,’ growing from ‘a panic among the billionaire class’

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December 3, 2025
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Economy

Scott Bessent is defiant on whether tariffs are a tax, demands Democrats work to cut actual taxes instead

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December 3, 2025
Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, appears to be the frontrunner to serve as the next Fed chair.
Economy

Longtime Trump advisor Kevin Hassett emerges as favorite for Fed chair, Bloomberg reports

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November 26, 2025
United States Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent (L) and Chair of the Federal Reserve of the United States Jerome Powell (R).
Economy

Scott Bessent wants the era of Fed-watching to end: They should ‘move back into the background’ and make fewer speeches, he says

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November 26, 2025
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Politics

Trump tells Scott Bessent to fix the Fed’s high interest rates or ‘I’m going to fire your ass’

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November 20, 2025
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Economy

Trump urges Scott Bessent to take Fed chair role, ‘but he wants no part of it, he likes being secretary of the Treasury’

By Christopher Rugaber, Josh Boak and The Associated Press
November 20, 2025
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Economy

Odds of President Trump paying out $2,000 tariff rebate checks now sit at just 2%

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November 18, 2025
WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 07: U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a member of the media during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump is meeting with Netanyahu to discuss ongoing efforts to release Israeli hostages from Gaza and newly imposed U.S. tariffs.
Politics

Trump turned tariffs into his foreign-policy weapon. This week, the Supreme Court will decide if he went too far

By Michelle S. Price and The Associated Press
November 3, 2025
President Donald Trump and Xi Jinping shake hands in 2019 before a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan.
North America

Trump and Xi Jinping meet at a temporary trade truce just days after China purchased its first U.S. soybeans from this year’s harvest

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October 30, 2025

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