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Scott Bessent: “The IMF [mission] is global financial stability.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 17:12

And the second is the way to get things done is to get things done. And I think we need to step back and look at the IMF and World bank, their core missions. The IMF [mission] is global financial stability. Stability and stabilizing on the countries that are in bad equilibriums and getting them back to a sustainable path, an economically sustainable path. World bank is to pull people out of poverty. (17:12–17:51)

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Asserts that the International Monetary Fund's mission is to ensure global financial stability.

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