When hedge-fund billionaire Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent was nominated last fall by Donald Trump to serve as the nation’s 79th ...

With the president’s tariff pause doing little to quell panic in the markets, his man at the Treasury has been put in an ...

US Treasury Scott Bessent has a message to powerful public company CEOs: Stop worrying about tariffs, and get back to business. "We're going to have a lot more clarity on the way forward [on ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he expects a couple big deals “very quickly” in relation to President Trump’s latest tariff announcement. “We have one of the Vietnamese ...

The Chinese Embassy in Argentina has criticized U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for “maliciously slandering” the country as it continues to fund development assistance for African and ...

The financial press expects Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to rescue the economy, but he’s actually part of the problem. But is Bessent riding to the rescue? Various other damaging tariffs ...

Victoria Guida is an economics correspondent at POLITICO and author of Capital Letter, a reported column that probes policies shaping the American economy and is closely read by policymakers and ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed the deepening U.S.-China trade war as a losing situation for Beijing Wednesday, moments after China imposed an 84% retaliatory tariff against the U.S ...