In a recent speech, Scott Bessent threw more cold water on a Trump campaign promise to lower the cost of living.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claims the American dream isn't 'let them eat flat-screens' or 'cheap baubles from China' ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent defended Donald Trump’s tariffs, arguing that access to cheap goods are not the “essence of the American Dream.” ...

Cheap TVs, toys, and electronics are all that's left of the American dream in an increasingly unaffordable economy — and they ...

The phrase “the American dream” is often credited to James Truslow Adams, who definitely popularized it in his 1931 book, The ...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent backs the president’s trade war even if it worsens the cost-of-living squeeze on ordinary ...

As the Trump administration performed yet another flip-flop on trade policy, a top economic official has declared that buying cheap products is “not the essence of the American dream.” According to ...

arguing that "access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American Dream.” Economic experts have argued that tariffs could increase the price of American goods. But Bessent dismissed ...

Scott Bessent laid out a vision of the American Dream at an Economic Club of New York (ECNY) event on Thursday, March 6, 2025. Advertisement ...

But with the president now waging a high-stakes tariff campaign, his Treasury secretary tells Americans cheap goods are “not the essence of the American Dream.” But there's one element of that ...

“Access to cheap goods is not the essence of the American dream,” Bessent said. “The American Dream is rooted in the concept that any citizen can achieve prosperity, upward ...