The US Treasury secretary expects tariffs and growth to boost government revenue, while banks and monetary innovation keep borrowing costs in check. The scheme evokes the 18th-century Scottish ...

Experts weigh in on how the housing market could react if Fed Chair Jerome Powell is dismissed, and they point to economic ...

Consumers’ inflation expectations, by some measures, are also the highest in decades. Inflation has been above the Fed’s 2% ...

Kevin Hassett, one of President Trump’s longest-serving economic aides, is the early front-runner to replace Jerome Powell as ...

President Trump said Scott Bessent could potentially lead the Federal Reserve but the former hedge-fund manager wasn't his ...

Ideas for how to squeeze the country’s interest bill, ideally without cutting spending or raising taxes, are thus at a ...

Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury, stated that the Trump administration has formally launched the process of finding a ...

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Both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq - and by extension, MSCI's world equities index - retreated from record peaks after traders ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could be a candidate to replace Federal Reserve ...

Scott Bessent is not going to be the next Federal Reserve chair. This came only hours after Scott himself said he’d be “happy ...

President Donald Trump suggested Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent could potentially replace Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. Although Bessent is a candidate, Trump has expressed satisfaction ...