Trump's Treasury pick, tariffs, and retail therapy: 3 themes that drove markets this week
Still, Trump's nomination of Scott Bessent to the top Treasury post raised hopes that tariffs will be more measured. And with ...
The total wealth of Trump’s top team is $340 billion — more than the GDP of 169 countries
Donald Trump’s campaign pledged to be a champion for working class Americans. His incoming administration is stuffed with ...
Donald Trump has been secretly communicating with ‘man crush’ Jamie Dimon about White House agenda for months: sources
Sources close to the Trump transition team said fellow Queens native Dimon, 68, has acted as “a sounding board” for the ...
The 8 Stocks And 1 ETF On My Buy List Going Into December
Government spending cuts and Elon Musk's DOGE initiative face challenges. See why cash-rich AI stocks and 1 ETF may be a ...
Meet the billionaires working with Trump on his second term
Donald Trump has surrounded himself with fellow billionaires, like Elon Musk and Howard Lutnick, as he prepares for his ...
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Tariff threats will do harm, even if Donald Trump does not impose them
Another check on the administration could be the fear of tariff-induced inflation. Americans’ experience of the highest price ...
Opinion
Donald Trump should take Scott Bessent’s advice
Centrally planned economies always fail. This was the case made by renowned hedge fund manager and future Donald Trump treasury secretary nominee Scott Bessent in a June speech to the Manhattan ...
Bessent: We're In The Middle Of A Bretton Woods Realignment, "I'd Like To Be Part Of It"
Scott Bessent, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, in an interview on the 'Capital ...
Elon Musk uses X to push his preferred political picks. Trump isn't always swayed
Musk, who has 206 million followers on X, posted or reposted about Trump's cabinet picks more than 70 times between Nov. 7 ...
He Helped ‘Break’ the Bank of England. Now He May Run the U.S. Treasury.
Scott Bessent’s former colleagues and rivals see the prospective Treasury secretary as a thoughtful choice with a broad ...
The Art of the Tariff: Trump's latest threat is right out of his negotiating playbook
Trump's promise to impose a 25% tariff on all imports from Canada and Mexico mimics his old strategy of using tariff threats ...
GASP! A Trump Hanger-On May Have Acted in His Own Financial Interest Rather Than in the Public’s.
While President-elect Donald Trump has announced most of his major nominations, we’re only beginning to learn about the knife ...