#bessent — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #bessent, aggregated by home.social.
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https://www.europesays.com/people/71345/ Who Attended the U.S.-China State Dinner in Beijing? #bessent #China #CommunistPartyOfChina #DonaldJ #GreatHallOfThePeople(Beijing #HeLifeng(1955) #hegseth #LiQiang(1959) #marco #pete #rubio #Scott #TimCook #Trump #UnitedStates #WangYi #XiJinping
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RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/116520243650719626
US Treasury Secretary #Bessent had "fierce" argument w UK Chancellor Reeves in Washington last month over her comments re #IranWar
Reeves: Goals of war had “never been clear” - “Not convinced” that “we are safer today than we were few weeks ago”
Bessent berated Reeves that world was safer
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https://www.europesays.com/news/24676/ U.S. Warns China Over Iranian Oil as Sanctions Fight Intensifies #Bessent #China #EmbargoesAndSanctions #Headlines #Iran #News #Oil(Petroleum)AndGasoline #Scott #TopStories #TreasuryDepartment #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/98070/ U.S. Warns China Over Iranian Oil as Sanctions Fight Intensifies #Bessent #China #EmbargoesAndSanctions #Iran #Oil(Petroleum)AndGasoline #Scott #TreasuryDepartment #UnitedStatesInternationalRelations
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Trump administration says war in Iran has been ‘terminated’ before 60-day deadline
President Donald Trump’s administration is arguing that the war in Iran has already ended because of the ceasefire…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #administration #Bessent #breakingnews #Congress #congressionalapproval #Iran #JoeBiden #KingCharlesIII #MarkwayneMullin #PeteHegseth #PresidentDonaldTrump #Trumpadministration #U.S.Navy #WhiteHouse
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LIVE: Treasury Secretary Bessent testifies before Senate
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testifies before the Senate Appropriations Committee. #USA #Treasury #Bessent #Senate #Congress #Finance #Government #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:
https://fllics.com/en/video/live-treasury-secretary-bessent-testifies-before-senate/
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Hatte mich schon gefragt, warum es zum kurzfristigen Treffen von Trumps Stabschefin Wiley & Finanzminister Bessent mit dem Anthropic-Chef Amodei noch kaum etwas in deutschsprachigen Medien gab. Und also ein YouTube-Short dazu aufgenommen.
Denn nach meiner Auffassung sehen wir hier eine weitere, drastische Machtverschiebung von schnell alternden und fossil kriselnden Nationalstaaten zu KI-Konzernen. KI ist längst kein „Nerdkram“ mehr, sondern Technologie, die Militär, Politik, Finanzsystem / Banking, Wirtschaft, Kultur und Demografie grundlegend umwälzt. Meine ich. (2/2) #USA #Anthropic #Wiley #Bessent #Amodei https://youtube.com/shorts/rgKLHZdXchw
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#trump #liberal #democrats #gop #oil #comedy #immigration #conservative #protest #crime #maga #impeach #oligarchy #rubio #liberals #grift #corruption #equality #fascism #fraud #ice #hegseth #scotus #justice #IranWar #politics #economy #iran #war #blanche #vought #mullin #doj #israel #bessent #travel #scary #death #WWlll #wars #iranwar
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Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent had previously said that Washington would not extend it but…
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Hey y'all, remember when I said I wanted to find the time to red-string the whole Jared #Kushner thing?
Kait Justice (is that the best name or what?) has Done The Thing! All the red string you could ever follow.
It's grift all the way down with these people. All. The. Way. Down.
#Epstein #EpsteinClass #ApolloGlobal #Bessent #Gaza #Saudi #sleepingwiththeenemy #israel #Palestine
https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/the-jared-kushner-investigation-a
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https://www.europesays.com/people/20933/ Vance and Bessent questioned tech giants on AI security before Anthropic’s Mythos #AiSecurity #Anthropic #bessent #DarioAmodei #mythos #TechGiants #Vance
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Side note, somewhat relevant:
Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent controls over $1.08 billion in documented #Epstein wire transfers and has refused three Senate requests to release them.
In 2014 he was a client of Ehud #Barak’s spy firm #Ergo, whose corporate structure was created by Epstein’s lawyer Darren #Indyke.
He now chairs the #CFIUS review of a $55 billion deal where #Kushner holds equity.
Bessent's disclosure shows a $50 million debt to #GoldmanSachs, the bank brokering the deal.
No recusal has been recorded.
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Addressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, the president said oil prices “have not gone up as much as I thought, Scott, to be honest with you. It’s all going to come back down to where it was and probably lower.”
Tech reviewers have a rule - never review a product based on promises. Only base a review on what you have today.
All we have today - right now - from the Trump administration is promises and verifiable lies.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/26/trump-iran-war-oil-stocks.html
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Scott #Bessent , the Secretary of Defending the Indefensible, weighs in.
https://bergetoons.blogspot.com/2026/03/q-toon-tea-and-bessentpathy.html#Editorialcartoon #lgbtq #trump #mueller #welker #KristenWelker #meetthepress #scottbessent #empathy
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“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
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@iran“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar
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“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
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@iran“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar
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“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
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@iran“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar
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“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
@[email protected]
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@iran“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar
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“the US seeks 200 billion dollars of non existent American money to continue its own destruction - and that of the rest of the world”
by Deaglan O’Mulrooney in the spectacle on Substack
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@[email protected]
@iran“US Treasury Secretary Scott #Bessent assures Americans there is ‘plenty of money’ to fund the war. No need to raise taxes, no need to cut anything, just a ‘supplemental’. ‘We have a #trillion dollars in this year’s budget for the military,’ he said breezily. A trillion dollars. For the military. While public schools crumble. While infrastructure decays. While 27% of adults go without dental care and 17% of low-income Americans have already lost six or more teeth to entirely preventable disease. There are homeless tent cities in every single city in the US”
https://open.substack.com/pub/thespectaclemag/p/the-us-seeks-200-billion-dollars
#Press #SocialMedia #Iran #War #Trump #Israel #OperationEpsteinFury #OperationEpicMistake #RegimeChange #WarCrimes #CrimesAgainstHumanity #US #PermanentWar
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⬆️ @Stinson_108
Of course I don't believe any words coming out the mouths of the #Trump Administration, but oftentimes, it is their body language and tone of delivery that gives the game away.
Look in the thread for the body language of #Bessent when he makes a circular motion to explain the $20B #DFC "circular" #insurance program as a #Ponzi scheme to profit from when #Lloyds declares #ForceMajeure and refuses to pay for ships and cargo lost in the #StraitOfHormuz.
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⬆️ @Stinson_108
Of course I don't believe any words coming out the mouths of the #Trump Administration, but oftentimes, it is their body language and tone of delivery that gives the game away.
Look in the thread for the body language of #Bessent when he makes a circular motion to explain the $20B #DFC "circular" #insurance program as a #Ponzi scheme to profit from when #Lloyds declares #ForceMajeure and refuses to pay for ships and cargo lost in the #StraitOfHormuz.
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⬆️ @Stinson_108
Of course I don't believe any words coming out the mouths of the #Trump Administration, but oftentimes, it is their body language and tone of delivery that gives the game away.
Look in the thread for the body language of #Bessent when he makes a circular motion to explain the $20B #DFC "circular" #insurance program as a #Ponzi scheme to profit from when #Lloyds declares #ForceMajeure and refuses to pay for ships and cargo lost in the #StraitOfHormuz.
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Trump’s threats over Greenland draw warnings and profanities at global forum – AP News
Newsom told European leaders to stand up to Trump’s tariff threats over support of Greenland, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. (AP video shot by Kostya Manenkov)DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — There were grave warnings from European leaders and expletives from California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday as leaders at the World Economic Forum grappled with the Greenland crisis and heightened concerns over global trade.
The gathering in Davos, Switzerland, comes as U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push for the seizure of Greenland and the imposition of related trade tariffs.
French President Emmanuel Macron, wearing aviator sunglasses because of an eye infection, warned of a “new colonial approach” that would undermine decades of collaboration.
Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister and former central banker, urged countries below the top tier of global power to continue multilateral cooperation with a new, “dense web of connections.”
In their words: Trump’s threats over Greenland draw warnings and profanities at global forum
French President Emmanuel Macron speaks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber) Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney makes his way to take part in an event tilted “Country Strategy Dialogue: Canada” as he attends the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (Sean Kilpatrick / The Canadian Press via AP) U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent attends the 56th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, January 20, 2026. (Gian Ehrenzeller / Keystone via AP) President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen talks during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo / Markus Schreiber) Updated 9:29 AM PST, January 20, 2026And in the forum’s entrance hall, Newsom was the most blunt, telling European leaders: “It’s time to get serious and stop being complicit. It’s time to stand tall and firm – have a backbone.”
Here’s a look at what attendees said:
Gavin Newsom
“I can’t take this complicity. People rolling over. I should’ve brought a bunch of knee pads for all the world leaders,” the California governor and prominent Democrat said. “I hope people understand how pathetic they look on the world stage. I mean, at least from an American perspective, it’s embarrassing.” He added: “Diplomacy with Donald Trump? He’s a T-Rex. You mate with him or he devours you. One or the other … Wake up! Where the hell has everybody been? Stop with this (expletive) diplomacy of sort of niceties and somehow we’re all going to figure it out, saying one thing privately and another publicly. Have some spine, some goddamn (expletive).”
Emmanuel Macron
Before expressing his concern, the French president began his address with a joke: “It’s a time of peace, stability and predictability.”
Warning major powers against the temptation of modern colonial adventures, he added: “It’s a shift towards a world without rules. Where international law is trampled underfoot and where the only law that seems to matter is that of the strongest, and imperial ambitions are resurfacing.” Then he took aim at the Trump administration, denouncing “competition from the United States of America, through trade agreements that undermine our export interests, demand maximum concessions, and openly aim to weaken and subordinate Europe, combined with an endless accumulation of new tariffs that are fundamentally unacceptable, even more so when they are used as leverage against territorial sovereignty.”
Mark Carney
“Great powers can afford for now to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity, and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not,” the Canadian prime minister said.
“In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favor or to combine to create a third path with impact,” he said. “(We) argue the middle powers must act together because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu.”
Carney strongly opposed U.S. aspirations to expand its Arctic territory. “We stand firmly with Greenland and Denmark and fully support their unique right to determine Greenland’s future.”
Scott Bessent
With President Trump not due to address the elite global gathering until Wednesday, it fell to his treasury secretary to take up his defense in Switzerland.
“I think our relations have never been closer,” Scott Bessent said, playing down the rift among Western countries over Greenland. ”Calm down the hysteria. Take a deep breath.”
He added: “We are in the middle of President Trump’s policies. And of course, Europe is an ally, the U.S.-NATO membership is unquestioned. We are partners in trying to stop this tragic war between Russia and Ukraine, but that does not mean that we cannot have disagreements on the future of Greenland.”
Bart De Wever
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever said that with Trump’s Greenland provocations, “so many red lines have been crossed” in Europe.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump’s threats over Greenland draw warnings and profanities at global forum | AP News
Tags: AP, AP News, Associated Press, Bart De Weaver, Bessent, Davos, Economic World Forum, Emmanuel Macron, Gavin Newsom, Global Forum, Greenland, Mark Carney, Profanities, Switzerland, Trump, Trump Administration, Trump Threats, Warnings from Europe
#AP #APNews #AssociatedPress #BartDeWeaver #Bessent #Davos #EconomicWorldForum #EmmanuelMacron #GavinNewsom #GlobalForum #Greenland #MarkCarney #Profanities #Switzerland #Trump #TrumpAdministration #TrumpThreats #WarningsFromEurope -
Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times
President Trump, who is scheduled to speak in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, has been heaping dismissive scorn on many of the leaders he will greet there. Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos
As European leaders try to engage with the American president over Greenland and the future of Ukraine, he is mocking them as weak.
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Credit…Eric Lee for The New York Times.By Michael D. Shear and Jeanna Smialek
Jan. 20, 2026, Updated 3:32 p.m. ET
President Trump and his entourage will be in Europe this week. And they are showing their contempt.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already hobnobbing with elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, had a sharp retort when reporters asked him about European leaders’ efforts to block Mr. Trump from seizing Greenland.
“I imagine they will form the dreaded European working group,” Mr. Bessent said, calling it their “most forceful weapon.”
It is no secret that the president and his aides view Europe as a weak, ineffectual collection of nations dominated by liberal leaders and tangled in bureaucracy. His administration’s official national security strategy, released last month, said Europe had lost its “civilizational self-confidence” amid a “failed focus on regulatory suffocation.”
But rarely has the mocking been so overt.
European leaders’ “most forceful weapon” is “the dreaded European working group,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Credit…Markus Schreiber / Associated PressEarly on Tuesday morning, as Europe’s leaders continued to wring their hands over the president’s latest threats to Greenland, Mr. Trump posted an apparently A.I.-generated meme that showed him hoisting an American flag while standing on the island.
Editor’s Note: The cartoonish image of standing on Greenland, from Truth Social, my edits, I cleaned it up a bit. 🙂 … –DrWeb
“Greenland. U.S. Territory. Est. 2026,” the meme read.
Mr. Trump had not even arrived in Switzerland yet. But as he prepared to speak there on Wednesday, he continued to heap dismissive scorn on the leaders he was about to greet.
When reporters told Mr. Trump that President Emmanuel Macron of France was not going to join the American-led “Board of Peace” overseeing Gaza, Mr. Trump waved aside Mr. Macron’s opinions as irrelevant, saying he would be “out of office in a few months.”
“I’ll put a 200 percent tariff on his wines and Champagnes, and he’ll join, but he doesn’t have to join,” the president said, flexing the power of the American market and underscoring France’s vulnerability to his whims.
He also posted flattering messages from Mr. Macron and Mark Rutte, the Secretary General of NATO, on Truth Social — showing just how much European leaders are heaping praise on Mr. Trump in what appears to be an attempt to keep him engaged.
“I will use my media engagements in Davos to highlight your work,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the message that Mr. Trump shared.
“Let us try to build great things,” Mr. Macron said, though he also noted: “I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland.”
Mr. Trump also targeted Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, giving him his signature all-caps treatment as he complained that the United Kingdom had decided to give up sovereignty of Diego Garcia and the other Chagos Islands, while retaining control of a U.K.- and U.S.-operated military base there.
In 2024, the United Kingdom relinquished control of the islands, a remote archipelago it had held since the colonial era, to Mauritius. Secretary of State Marco Rubio later praised the deal, which came after years of negotiations, and after a court found that Britain had acted unlawfully by detaching the archipelago from Mauritius in 1965.
“Our ‘brilliant’ NATO Ally, the United Kingdom, is currently planning to give away the Island of Diego Garcia,” the president wrote on his social media site, accusing Britain of doing so “FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.”
He added that international powers “only recognize STRENGTH” and that giving away the island was an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY.”
Mr. Trump’s heckling has troubled European leaders, many of whom are hoping to communicate with him on the sidelines of the Davos meetings. Leaders from across the 27-nation European Union will also gather in Brussels on Thursday evening to discuss how to respond to his latest threats on Greenland.
As the United States looks like a more and more volatile ally — and a hugely unpredictable one — European leaders are saying the continent must move away from its tight ties to America.
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Trump Heckles Europe Before Heading to Davos – The New York Times
Tags: Bessent, Criticizes, Davos, Europe, European Nations, Greenland, Jeanna Smialek, Michael D. Shear, Slams, Switzerland, The New York Times, Trump, Trump 1.2, Trump Administration, Ukraine
#Bessent #Criticizes #Davos #Europe #EuropeanNations #Greenland #JeannaSmialek #MichaelDShear #Slams #Switzerland #TheNewYorkTimes #Trump #Trump12 #TrumpAdministration #Ukraine -
Pulcro y generoso resumen financiero de la primera mitad de tal vez el peor gobierno argentino hasta la fecha (el próximo puede ser peor), en la previa a las últimas elecciones legislativas.
https://www.lanacion.com.ar/economia/un-resultado-digno-la-apuesta-oficial-para-descomprimir-el-dolar-nid24102025/
#argentina #economía #finanzas #dólar #fmi #bessent #eeuu #caputo #milei #lla #teoría #análisis #noticias -
“U.S. #TreasurySecretary Scott #Bessent said he expects the #SupremeCourt to uphold the #IEEPA-based #tariffs. But if it strikes down the tariffs, Bessent said in an interview, the administration will simply switch to other #tariff authorities” www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Bessent: Estados Unidos trabaja en un nuevo 'servicio' del sector privado de 20.000 millones de dólares para Argentina #Argentina #Bessent #del #dólares #Estados #millones #nuevo #para #privado #Sector #servicio #trabaja #Unidos #ButterWord #Spanish_News Comenta tu opinión 👇
https://butterword.com/bessent-estados-unidos-trabaja-en-un-nuevo-servicio-del-sector-privado-de-20-000-millones-de-dolares-para-argentina/?feed_id=48779&_unique_id=68f003a5b60a9 -
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➤ Making Argentina Great Againit is incredibly suspicious to me that the US Treasury fund #Bessent wants to use to bail out #Argentina and Javier #Milei is almost exactly the same size as the amount of money #Tether is suddenly trying to raise via a “private placement”.
Tether is one of the most profitable companies in the history of the world, at least according to their own unaudited / unverified numbers. There should be no reason for them to need to raise capital and no desire on their part to sell off part of their cash cow.
Puting aside for a moment the absurdity of the idea that the central bank of international criminal finance considers itself to be in the same league as companies like Google, Nvidia, and Tesla, I can think of 3 possible explanations:
1. Tether is (somehow) out of cash. This is lent some credence by the fact that they are failing to pay their electricity bill in #Uruguay and had their power turned off a few weeks ago.
2. Tether wants to get some shares into the hands of corrupt government officials (other than Howard “Nutlick” #Lutnick, who already has some) for protection.
3. Now that the #Fed has pivoted and cut rates Tether’s income is about to start dropping (and the more the fed cuts, the more it will drop) so they are just cashing out the founders at the top. This is the most charitable interpretation.
it’s also worth mentioning that:
1. Tether’s #USDT token is very popular with #Argentinians trying to avoid that country’s hyperinflation. While technically illegal because of capital controls, it’s still a “crime” I have some sympathy for. But it does mean there’s an important connection between Tether and Argentina.
2. Tether is a major shareholder in south american agriculture business #Adecoagro which does a lot of work in Argentina.
more on Tether: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/trumps-transition-team-is-tethered
#uspol #MAGA #uspolitics #ScottBessent #treasury #finance #economics #bailout #IMF #WEF #WorldBank #howardLutnick #stablecoins
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Of course #supremecourt #SCOTUS will #expedite Trump #tariff case to be heard in November, and will decide the fate of Trump's efforts to reshape the #global #trade system #economy #economic #finance #banking #wallstreet #economy #bessent #treasury deflect from #martiallaw #autocracy #authoritarian #war #troops #venezuela where is our #democracy #justice #constitution #judiciary #epsteinfiles #sextrafficking #victims #survivors
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🦁📨 LöwenPost 2025/23 - Sino Kolumne: Fahrerassistenzsysteme ~ Schuldenpolitik ~ Handelsgespräche
https://steady.page/de/xiefuzi/posts/d73e753a-38fa-4a23-a447-9b2d1df97e3a#automotiveindustry #ev #electricvehicles #elektroauto #autonomousvehicles #tesla #高级辅助驾驶系统 #电动汽车 #自動駕駛汽車 #特斯拉公司 #economics #schuldenpolitik #debtpolicy #公共债务 #tradetalks #贸易谈判 #bessent #usa #china
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#IRS hopes to replace fired enforcement workers with #AI
#TreasurySecretary Scott #Bessent stating that smarter IT and the "AI boom" will offset reductions in revenue enforcement staff.
"IRS already uses AI for business functions including operational efficiency, compliance and fraud detection, and taxpayer services," the agency told The Register. "AI use cases must follow all relevant IRS privacy and security policies."
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Tried to watch Meet The Press – where first Mike #Pence and then Scott #Bessent were so ‘lala-land’ that it precluded any real evaluation.
Utter #dystopian nonsense statements poured out, indicating that what you see or saw is not what you see or saw.
Pence's solution? MAGA hangs itself with him.
Not only unwatchable, but actively unethical, illogical and undemocratic.
I’m not even sure #DearLeader would appreciate the puppet kabuki performed; too convoluted.
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🇺🇸 US | 🇨🇳 CHINA
🔴 US-China Hold First Major Trade Talks Since Tariff War🔸 Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent & Trade Rep. Jamieson Greer to meet Chinese officials this weekend in Geneva.
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Kevin Breuninger reveals significant U.S.-China trade talks this week. As tariffs on Chinese imports soar to 145%, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer will negotiate with Chinese officials in Switzerland. This pivotal meeting follows President Trump's assertion that "China wants to meet," sparking market optimism. Click to read more on the evolving economic landscape. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/06/trump-trade-china-switzerland-tariffs.html #Trump #China #TradeNegotiations #Tariffs #Bessent #Greer #Economics #Switzerland #USChinaRelations
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L’administration #Trump #US rétropédale face à la #panique #mondiale des #marchés Donald #Trump, #Heilon #Musk et le #secrétaire au #Trésor, Scott #Bessent, font machine arrière concernant le renvoi du patron de la #Fed, le #DOGE et les #droits de #douane #chinois www.lemonde.fr/economie/art...
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#TreasurySecretary #Bessent said on #MtP:
"The shutdown of the #SupplyChain during the #pandemic was a [warning] of what can happen when we don't produce everything we need."
It was destruction of the DOMESTIC Supply Chain that crashed the economy. IMPORTS SAVED US. Moving manufacturing to the U.S. wouldn't save us from another Supply Chain disruption.
IN FACT, putting #tariffs on imported SUPPLIES will do THE EXACT SAME THING! Get ready for ANOTHER Supply Chain crash. 🤦♂️
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CW: Politics Confirmation Treasury Secretary Tax Cuts
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After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary
Donald Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week
Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role:
the former Federal Reserve governor #Kevin #Warsh.Trump is also considering the Wall Street billionaire #Marc #Rowan.
He had been expected to pick either #Howard #Lutnick, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,
or #Scott #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management and a former money manager for George Soros.And he had been seen as likely to make the selection late last week.
But he has been having second thoughts about the top two candidates, and has slowed down his selection process.
He is expected to invite the contenders to interview with him this week at Mar-a-Lago.
Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Mr. Trump’s transition operation, has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.
Mr. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Mr. Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Bessent as a "knife fight", with Mr. Lutnick as the primary aggressor.
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After Flurry of Cabinet Picks, Trump Rethinks Candidates for Treasury Secretary
Donald Trump is expected to invite the contenders for the role, including Kevin Warsh and Marc Rowan, to Mar-a-Lago this week
Trump is eyeing a new candidate for Treasury Secretary amid internal debate over who should have the role:
the former Federal Reserve governor #Kevin #Warsh.Trump is also considering the Wall Street billionaire #Marc #Rowan.
He had been expected to pick either #Howard #Lutnick, the chief executive of the Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald,
or #Scott #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management and a former money manager for George Soros.And he had been seen as likely to make the selection late last week.
But he has been having second thoughts about the top two candidates, and has slowed down his selection process.
He is expected to invite the contenders to interview with him this week at Mar-a-Lago.
Mr. Lutnick, who has been running Mr. Trump’s transition operation, has gotten on Mr. Trump’s nerves lately.
Mr. Trump has privately expressed frustration that Mr. Lutnick has been hanging around him too much and that he has been manipulating the transition process for his own ends.A person familiar with the process, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the battle between Mr. Lutnick and Mr. Bessent as a "knife fight", with Mr. Lutnick as the primary aggressor.
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The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary
— the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more
— are #Howard #Lutnick, who’s CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s co-transition chair,and #Steven #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management.
Lutnick had been in the lead but a few days ago, according to the The Wall Street Journal, he heard from Trump’s allies that he might not get the nod.
So Lutnick turned for help to #Elon #Musk, who now calls himself Trump’s “First Buddy.”
Bessent’s supporters also reached out to Musk to endorse Bessent, which tells you alot about the palace intrigue going on now in Mar-a-Lago, and how much power Musk is now wielding.
Yesterday, Musk, posted on his X that Lutnick would be a better choice for treasury secretary than Bessent:
“My view fwiw is that Bessent is a business-as-usual choice, whereas @howardlutnick will actually enact change. Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, so we need change one way or another.”Musk’s and Trump’s criterion for filling high-level positions
(besides unbridled fealty to Trump):⚠️The picks don’t need to know anything or share any large vision of the public good.
They just have to be bomb-throwers who’ll shake things up.The worst that can be said of any candidate is he’ll govern as usual.
🔥Trump is well on his way to “crush the system,” as he promised
— which most Americans appear to want because the “as usual” system has for decades been rewarding big-money donors, monopolists, CEOs living off government contracts (like Musk)
and fat-cat denizens of Wall Street (like Lutnick and Bessent)
— all of whom have been siphoning off most economic gains for themselves.🆘 But if the new system that Trump installs
(with or without Musk’s help)
siphons off even more of the gains for those at the top, while destroying what’s left of our democracy,
most Americans will find themselves even worse off and more resentful.
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#David #Shulkin, whom Trump had appointed to head the V.A.,
made multiple visits to Palm Beach to consult with the troika that officials came to call “the Mar-a-Lago crowd.”“There probably weren’t too many times I met with the President when he didn’t say,
‘What’s happening with Ike?’ ”
Shulkin once said.When Perlmutter visited Washington, Shulkin told me,
“I would get a call
—‘Could you come over to the White House?
Mr. Perlmutter’s here with the President.’ ”Shulkin was fired by Trump, in March of 2018, amid a controversy over an expensive trip to Europe that Shulkin had taken at taxpayers’ expense.
Within hours, he went public with accusations that the story had been hyped by Trump political appointees who were intent on privatizing many of the V.A.’s services.
Shulkin told me that he never fully understood why Perlmutter,
who had not served in the U.S. military or even visited a V.A. hospital until Shulkin took him to one,
had been given such power over the agency.He described Perlmutter as “a private-sector guy” whom Trump admired as a self-made man,
someone who “had started with very little and built empires.”The problem, as Shulkin saw it, was that Perlmutter had little idea of what he was doing.
“Because he never worked in government, he didn’t understand government,” Shulkin told me.
“Part of my role was always trying to translate
—‘That isn’t the way we could do things in this organization.’ ”Perlmutter, however, has remained close to Trump.
He and his wife gave $21 million to a super pac supporting Trump’s bid in 2020,
and, in 2024, they bankrolled a new pro-Trump super pac,
"Right for America",
donating another $25 million.By September, Right for America had raised some $70 million,
which it has spent on an advertising blitz this fall.The venture drew support from other longtime members of Mar-a-Lago,
including the Newsmax founder #Christopher #Ruddy, who gave $100,000,
and #Anthony #Lomangino, a South Florida waste-management mogul,
who donated $7.85 million.#Scott #Bessent, another hedge-fund executive often mentioned as a possible Trump Treasury Secretary,
also contributed $100,000.🆘 Perlmutter’s highly unusual role in the first Trump Administration appears to have become something of a template for outside influence in a second term.
In March, when #Elon #Musk met with Trump at Peltz’s house for breakfast,
they discussed a broad advisory gig for the tech billionaire on such matters as immigration and the economy
—“in the mold of the role” that Perlmutter had played at the V.A.,
according to the Wall Street Journal.By August, after publicly endorsing Trump,
Musk had fleshed out the idea.During a lengthy live-streamed conversation with Trump,
Musk suggested that a commission was needed to investigate how to rein in government spending.Such a panel, Musk posted on X, “would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”
Weeks later,
during a speech at the Economic Club of New York,
Trump formally announced his support for a
“government-efficiency commission”
that would
“conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”He proposed that Musk,
despite having received billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies for his ventures SpaceX and Tesla,
should chair the effort.Soon, Trump was calling Musk his future
“Secretary of Cost Cutting.”It sounded like a more ambitious version of a project that Trump had launched early in his Presidency,
when he named the billionaire investor #Carl #Icahn as a special adviser in charge of overhauling federal regulations.Icahn left the role less than a year later,
when an article in this magazine raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.
