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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The strait is uh never going back to the way it was because the Iranians have used
Or try to use it as a choke point.
What it we are going to see over the next two years, the strait's going to become irrelevant.
It is going to become just another body of water.
And I would say that more than fifty or seventy percent of the energy that moves through the strait now is going to go through underground pipelines.
On the economic side, uh we we have them by the throat shortly, maybe even today.
Tomorrow we are going to see see an agreement uh thirty sixty day ceasefire and um
Strait will be open, energy prices should come down.
I I would say I would take I think they're saying that in a uh doomsday sort of way.
I I would say it in another way.
The strait isn't uh never going back to the way it was because the Iranians have used
or tried to use it as a choke point, what it we are going to see over the next two years, the strait's gonna become irrelevant.
It is going to become just another body of water.
And I would say that more than fifty or seventy percent of the energy that moves through the strait now is going to go through underground pipelines.
Here, just play a short clip of this. matched
The reason we did the joint intervention was as a symbol. matched
The U.S. matched
wanted to join with our great Japanese allies to show that we think that the Takeuchi government has the right policies that will lead to long-term yen strengthening. matched
And we believe that excess volatility and undue yen strength could hurt, indeed, the Asia region and the entire global economy. matched
Well, I just wanted to make sure that all the reporters looking over my shoulder also knew the symbol, JPY, for the Japanese yen. matched
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