Scott Bessent
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3,995 appearances
273 recordings
21 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 2d ago
Scott Bessent’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Uh action and I think that the economic action will mean that oil prices will come down sooner.
Bloomberg News Now · Bessent Flags Bigger Buyback Potential, Walmart Sales Slide, More · 20 Aug 2026
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I'll be holding a press conference on Monday to talk about exactly what we're gonna do.
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And and again, we have asymmetric information and I'm not sure why oil has popped up on this because this for now, for now, and it it is at the president's discretion.
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be a large scale kinetic restart, but I would emphasize that is for now.
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Well, I you know, I I when I was in the investment business, uh there are consumer uh surveys, but I used to look at what are the people really doing.
So at Treasury we have loads of CEOs come through, whether they're in retail, credit card, the banks, and the consumer, uh, while they may be uh
sounding uh grim is actually quite buoyant.
So we we are seeing spending has been very solid across most categories.
So
Well the look in the heart of hearts they feel good.
I'm I'm not sure what they're telling the survey people.
The MeidasTouch Podcast · Trump in Full Panic Mode on Friday as Plans Collapse · 14 Aug 2026
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Uh then the uh yeah, it's it's
typical, typical that they're they're they're un uninformed, deranged, and uh have no idea what they're talking about.
People should be upset.
The Biden administration towards them is twenty-one point five percent unemployment, four or five percent loss of purchasing power, wages didn't keep up, and for working Americans, uh, I think the inflation level is probably thirty or thirty-five percent for things like autos, insurance, rent.
And we've been trying to bring those down.
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Watch the space for more announcements coming next week because we are going to apply measures like have never been seen in the history the of economic isolation on a country.
Bloomberg News Now · Mangione Will Plead Guilty, Iran's 'Economic Isolation,' More · 14 Aug 2026
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Space for details next week will be a combination of echo economic isolation like the world has never seen before and the continued blockade in the Strait of Hormouth.
And we get more from Bloomberg Stuart Livingston Wallace in Dubai.
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