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What Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Milken event (and how his critics responded)
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's opening talk at the Milken conference will set the tone of the power-packed event
The biggest names in business will be hanging on the Treasury Secretary's every word.
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Milken speakers don rose-tinted glasses to weigh Trump policy effects
White House insiders and chief executives speaking at the Milken Institute's Global conference mostly remained optimistic ...
Economic upheaval takes center stage at Milken
President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the economy — and U.S. financial markets in particular — is likely to be a prevailing ...
Treasury Secretary Bessent sells tariffs rhetoric to Wall Street by talking up deregulation and tax cuts
At the Milken conference, Scott Bessent emphasized how tariffs, tax cuts, and deregulation will solidify America as 'the home ...
Scott Bessent tells tariff-bashing Wall Street bigwigs to ‘never bet against America’ — despite growing fears
Bessent, 63, gave a full-throated defense of the commander-in-chief’s America First agenda, predicting that Trump’s trade, ...
Playbook PM: Bessent’s optimistic pitch
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent today made the pitch for investing in the U.S. under President Donald Trump’s economic ...
Jill Biden, Tony Blair, Scott Bessent, Mehmet Oz at Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills
This conference is where the world comes to connect ideas with capital, science with policy, and vision with action,” said ...
Citadel’s Ken Griffin faces MAGA attack at Milken Institute shindig: ‘Nationalists versus globalists’
Griffin has repeatedly irked Trump World with his consistent public criticism of the president’s trade and immigration ...