‘The best chance we’ve got’: Can Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent save the world from trade Armageddon?
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As President Donald Trump conducted an impromptu news conference in Doha, Qatar, this month, surrounded by business leaders and top advisers, he made a point of singling out one person in particular.
As President Donald Trump conducted an impromptu news conference in Doha, Qatar, this month, surrounded by business leaders and top advisers, he made a point of singling out one person in particular. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, seated six seats down from Trump at the large square of adjoining tables filled by top business executives and fellow Cabinet secretaries, had just scored a crucial win for the administration, securing an agreement to temporarily pause the escalating trade war between the US and China. Bessent had flown straight from the trade talks in Geneva to the Middle East for Trump’s first major foreign trip, making a stop in Saudi Arabia before arriving in Doha with the president two days later, with soaring markets as a backdrop. Trump’s view was unequivocal. “We have a man here who has been unbelievable,” Trump gushed. “When he speaks, the markets really listen.” Bessent, hewing tightly to his characteristically understated public posture, managed to crack a small grin before offering a carefully calibrated version of Trump’s grand pronouncements.
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