Scott Bessent

Scott Bessent serves as chief executive officer and chief investment officer for Key Square Group LP, a Connecticut-based investment partnership that he founded in 2015. Bessent was chief investment officer for Soros Fund Management, the investment vehicle for the Soros Family and their foundations, from 2011 to 2015. He was an adjunct professor of Economic History at Yale University from 2006-2011.

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16 Nobel Prize-winning economists claim Trump will wreck our economy. This is the reason I don't trust them

Academic economists’ recent record of political advocacy is a potent reminder of why Americans have come to dismiss the dismal science

OPINION March 12

Biden’s triple threat is financially toxic for average Americans

Americans have suffered under Bidenomics. Inflation, interest rates and immigration have combined to create a financial triple threat that means they can't keep up.

OPINION February 24

Wall Street leader calls on Haley to drop out if she loses big in South Carolina

The South Carolina Republican primary should hold a lesson for Nikki Haley. If you lose your home state by a wide margin, that sends an important message about your campaign.