Bessent says ‘I am the house now.’ What it means for the yen — and U.S. stocks.

September 8, 2026 · 2:44 pm 3 sources

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• Bessent says ‘I am the house now.’ What it means for the yen — and U.S. stocks.
  MarketWatch · September 9, 2026 08:31
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has never been accused of being a wallflower, but speaking in front of Southern Methodist University’s business school on Tuesday night he made perhaps the most strident comment of his governmental career.

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