Scott Bessent: “The stock market lives in the future.”

Our objective is to sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands alone.

I emphasized that we expect Beijing to fully meet its commitments on rare earths and U.S. agricultural products.

If you insist on doing business with them—either transferring money, buying oil, doing seaborne ship transport—then the US Treasury and the US government, they will put its full might and force towards enforcing against you.

I mean we're not at war with Canada. How are we going to be at war with Canada? What, are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton mall and sic them on us?