In the second MAGA Administration, the hedge-fund manager Scott Bessent will have the job of acting as a voice of reason.

Trump's nominee to run the Treasury faces a tall order—dealing with mounting debt, implementing an aggressive tariff regime, ...

The hedge fund investor predicted last year that President-elect Donald J. Trump’s political fortunes were on the rise.

If confirmed, Bessent would runn the department that manages the nation's finances as well as its tax agency, the Internal ...

Donald Trump on Friday said he would nominate Scott Bessent to be the 79th U.S. Treasury secretary and frontman for the ...

Bessent was once described as the "protege" of billionaire George Soros, who he worked for over the course of decades.

Scott Bessent, the founder of the Connecticut-based hedge fund Key Square Group, had been making a full-court press for the ...