WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday argued that the U.S. financial system is extra fragile beneath the floor than financial metrics recommend, citing rate of interest volatility, sticky inflation and job progress targeted on the federal government sector.
In a wide-ranging speech on the Australian embassy, Bessent took goal at what he known as extreme authorities spending and overregulation beneath former President Joe Biden, pledging a dramatic shift in strategy beneath President Donald Trump.
“The earlier administration’s over-reliance on extreme authorities spending and overbearing regulation left us with an financial system which will have exhibited some affordable metrics however in the end was brittle beneath,” he mentioned.
(Reporting by David Lawder, writing by Andrea Shalal; Enhancing by Chizu Nomiyama)
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