Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blasted the US companies ramping up investment in artificial intelligence, faulting them for failing to build ties with communities amid a wave of popular concern over data centers boosting the cost of living.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to rally the world's largest economies this week at a summit in Asheville, North Carolina

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent downplayed short-term bond moves even as he touted the U.S. market, saying, "what happens over a month doesn't matter."

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called out China on Tuesday for not wanting to address certain trade issues at the Group of 20 (G20) conference, saying the country did not agree cheap exports are “unsustainable.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent admitted "prices are too high" after Brian Kilmeade noted that half of Americans believe the cost of living is too high. The post Scott Bessent Admits ‘Prices Are Too High’ After Fox Host Confronts Him With Bad ‘Cost of Living’ Poll first appeared on Mediaite.

The Treasury chief has made the same call three times in four weeks. The market's answer keeps changing.

Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda faces unusually acute risks of financial-market turbulence as he approaches this month’s policy decision in the wake of a public pressure campaign by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says 19 of the members of the G20 agreed to address streams of “cheap exports” that cause global economic imbalances, but China dissented.

The Treasury Secretary says policies aimed at boosting private-sector growth should be more broadly embraced by G20 nations.

Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russian energy infrastructure as part of a broader strategy to cut into Putin's ability to continue to fund the invasion The post ‘Gross’: Bessent Sparks Fury By Chiding Ukraine For Attacking Russia first appeared on Mediaite.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Driven in part by his own experience with poverty as a child, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is pitching a financial literacy campaign to leaders of the world’s largest economies and suggesting an investment account program begun under President Donald Trump as a model for it.