Scott Bessent
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China’s Objections at the United States-Hosted G20 Finance Meeting and the Limits of Manufactured Multilateral Consensus
An examination of the institutional, strategic and economic drivers behind Beijing’s refusal to endorse language on trade imbalances, non-market policies and critical supply chains in the chair’s statement issued after the Asheville gathering Editorial Analysis | September 2026 In the closing days of the United States G20 presidency’s finance track, finance ministers and central bank… Continue reading
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Bessent Summons Markets as the Thirty-Year Yield Tests a Generation High
Expanded Treasury buybacks and a rare public intervention by the Secretary underline the rising cost of financing a public debt that now exceeds forty trillion dollars General Article | August 2026 The yield on the thirty-year United States Treasury note climbed to 5.34 per cent in recent sessions, marking the highest reading since the period… Continue reading
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The U.S. Vows to Impose the Toughest Sanctions in History on Iran
President Trump Declares ‘Economic D-Day,’ Threatening Crippling Sanctions for Dealing with Iran General Article | August 2026 Washington has launched what it describes as an economic D-Day against Iran, with United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent vowing to impose the toughest sanctions in history in a concerted effort to collapse the Iranian government. Speaking to… Continue reading
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What’s Happening with US Bonds, Debt, and Oil
Bond Market Reversal, $40 Trillion Debt Milestone, and Geopolitical Oil Premium: A Snapshot of US Fiscal and Market Pressures On August 19-20, 2026, US long-term Treasury yields largely erased the temporary relief from a surprise Treasury Department intervention, underscoring persistent fiscal and market tensions. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that the department would at least… Continue reading
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The Yen Crisis is a Tsunami Like No Other on the Dollar Hegemony
How Japan’s Financial Collapse Threatens to Trigger a Systemic Breakdown of the Global Dollar System Philip Pilkington’s analysis reveals that Japan’s financial instability represents the most immediate threat to the entire dollar-based international monetary system, with the yen functioning as the “canary in the coal mine” that signals an impending systemic collapse. The yen carry… Continue reading
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Treasury Secretary Bessent Demands Fed Expansion as Yen Crisis Threatens Global Bond Markets
Washington and Tokyo scramble to prevent Japanese fire sale of $1.14 trillion in US debt as currency intervention proves insufficient The United States Treasury has effectively placed the Federal Reserve on notice, demanding the expansion of a little-known emergency lending facility as the deepening yen crisis threatens to trigger a fire sale of American government… Continue reading
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The Yen Crisis and the Unravelling of Dollar Hegemony
The Yen Crisis and the Unravelling of Dollar Hegemony: How America’s Energy War Is Breaking Its Own Financial System Editorial Analysis | August 2026 Japan’s currency has experienced its most dramatic decline in four decades, with the yen plunging to 163.99 per American dollar on 23 July 2026, a level not witnessed since 1986. This… Continue reading
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Trump’s Tariffs Backfired and Weakened Economic Power
The Burdem of United States Trade Policy Failure Fell on American Consumers, Firms, Allies, and Markets The reintroduction and expansion of United States tariffs under the Trump administration formed the centrepiece of a strategy publicly presented as economic nationalism, strategic leverage, and industrial revival. The policy failed on each stated objective while imposing measurable domestic… Continue reading
