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Scott Bessent: “I believe there were three board seats opening on the bank…”

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Published | Video Starts at 13:23

And he's going to campaign on restoring the Japanese economy, economic strength is national strength, and on a reflationary platform. And then kind of everything fell into line because I believe there were three board seats opening on the bank of Japan. Bank of Japan had been a group of deflationist or disinflationists. So Prime Minister is going to have the opportunity to reconstitute the board. Including. Including the governor. Yep. So everything kind of fell. Fell into line. Sorry. The president wants to. Very white. Oh, okay. Okay. (13:23–13:41)

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Asserts that there were three board seats opening on the Bank of Japan, allowing for potential reconstitution of the board.

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