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Scott Bessent: “German rates are up, French rates are up, Japanese rates are…”

Featuring: Scott Bessent, Republican | Secretary of the Treasury | National

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Published | Video Starts at 10:56

Well, I think that the Japan situation, that the market there again had a six standard deviation move and that was happening before any of the Greenland news. And I think the rest of the world, German rates are up, French rates are up, Japanese rates are up a tremendous amount. So I want to get to the macro story in a moment, but let me stay on tariffs for one more moment because we could be hearing from the Supreme Court. (10:56–11:02)

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Asserts that interest rates in Germany, France, and Japan have increased significantly.

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