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Jim Edwards

Bessent’s $4 billion bond plan is like ‘rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic given the U.S. national debt of $40 trillion,’ ING says

Photo: Scott Bessent (Credit: Photo by Magnus LEJHALL / TT News Agency / AFP)

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