Scott Bessent: Fixing the Fed, Tariffs for National Security, Solving Affordability in 2026
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(0:00) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent joins the show (0:55) Recapping 2025 and the state of the economy (3:13) Tariffs: Leverage, legal challenges, implementation (15:20) Affordability: inflation, BLS data, interest rates (23:00) The Fed: biggest mistakes, how we got a 15 year asset bubble, rate cycle, appetite for US debt, Fed Chair candidates (42:44) Focus on Main Street, taking equity stakes in American companies (50:40) Tax cuts, Trump accounts, economic legacy Follow Secretary Bessent:...
Who is mentioned in this episode?
8 people come up, including Scott Besant, Stephen Myron, Alan Greenspan.
- Scott Besant (Person)
- Stephen Myron (Person)
- Alan Greenspan (Person)
- Susan and Michael Dell (Person)
- Vice President Harris (Person)
- Alan Blinder (Person)
- Paul Krugman (Person)
- Elizabeth Economy (Person)
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- US Federal Reserve (Company)
- Main Street (Concept)
- MIT (Company)
- Boeing (Company)
- Wall Street (Concept)
- San Francisco Fed (Company)
- Federal Reserve (Company)
- inflation (Concept)
- Main Street (Location)
- Trump accounts (Concept)
- U.S. economy (Concept)
- Biden Administration (Company)
- economic inequality (Concept)
- trade deals (Concept)
- fentanyl tariffs (Concept)
- fiscal year 26 (Event)
- modern monetary theory (Concept)
- Knickerbocker crisis (Event)
- Charleston, South Carolina (Location)
- Google LLC (Company)