Scott Bessent's wise comments on tariffs, taxes, spending, and debt calmed investors and sent markets soaring.

The national debt is slated to rise by $23.9 trillion over the next decade, a sum that does not include trillions of dollars ...

Treasury nominee Bessent a shoo-in Trump’s foreign policy steps into unstable world Gaza truce back on track Inauguration Day ...

U.S. Treasury nominee Scott Bessent on Thursday faced sharp questions from both Democrats and Republicans on tax policies, ...

The Democratic Party's left wing is responding to President Joe Biden's strong words about the possibility of an American ...

South Carolina billionaire investor and hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent faced questioning on Capitol Hill Thursday during ...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 are headed for their best weeks since the November election. SpaceX launched ...

Trump's picks fit into three groups: the fortifiers (the good), the detractors (the bad), and the mercurial influencers who ...

Scott Bessent summarized the incoming administration’s perspective perfectly: Yes to tax breaks for the wealthy, no to ...

Sixteen women. Twelve TV and news media personalities. Ten immigrants. A former NFL football player. These are among the ...

Steven Miran, Trump’s head of the Council of Economic Advisers, wrote a paper defending tariffs and arguing that tariffs are ...