Scott Bessent: “We want to do substantial financial deregulation.”

“And what I've tried to do, as I outlined in my speech here, as I outlined a year ago, outlined in a year ago, We want to do substantial financial deregulation. And we have not my numbers, but some outside consulting firms think that we've created 3 trillion of extra lending capacity in the regulated banking system.” (31:09–31:12)

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