Scott Bessent: “Core inflation continues to come down and headline is just…”

“I just can't plug in a day, a date certain when the war will end, how long it will take things to normalize. But what we can see is that Core inflation continues to come down and headline is just influenced by energy prices and those will come down. So. But I do think that the growth could easily exceed three, three and a half this year. Still. Still. Okay. Wow. All right. The Congress is considering reconciliation 2.0, maybe 3.0.” (06:09–06:20)

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