Scott Bessent<\/a> was a client.<\/p>\nIn 2024 Trennert was in the mix for a big job inside the Trump White House \u2014 a \u201clife goal,\u201d he tells me.<\/p>\n
His long relationship with Bessent certainly helped, and he was offered the post of assistant Treasury secretary for financial markets, essentially the country\u2019s top bond salesman.<\/p>\n
But just as the press release on the appointment went out, Trennert began experiencing severe migraines. <\/p>\n
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Trennert is currently the head of Strategas \u00adResearch Partners. DavidBeyda.COM 212-967-6964<\/p>\n
At first he didn\u2019t think anything of it; he had those in the past and they subsided with some simple meds.<\/p>\n
This time they didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
Further tests revealed a diagnosis no one wants to hear: a form of blood cancer that responds only to the most aggressive treatments.<\/p>\n
Trennert checked himself into Memorial Sloan Kettering \u2014 and a career that showed no limits suddenly hit a big one. <\/p>\n
The stem cell and chemo treatments he received made him sicker than he ever felt in his life. <\/p>\n
He credits his partners Nicholas Bohnsack and Dom Rissmiller for keeping the business running.<\/p>\n
There were other setbacks. <\/p>\n
The type of cancer Trennert has dam\u00adages the kidneys; they often repair on their own. <\/p>\n
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In Trennert\u2019s case, they didn\u2019t. <\/p>\n
He is seeking a donor. <\/p>\n
His wife, Bevin Trennert, plans to donate one of hers\u00a0\u2014 which doesn\u2019t match her husband\u2019s \u2014 to Weill Cornell\u2019s so-called lottery system, where Jason will get a voucher for one when a match is found.<\/p>\n
Man of faith<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve always been a faithful guy, going to church every week. I love my wife and my kids,\u201d Trennert said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife has been amazing,\u201d he says, as have friends including Bessent.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Trennert also admits the emotional damage has been intense: \u201cI was in shock for months. My personality vanished. I was so depressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Slowly but surely, Trennert has recovered, mentally and physically. <\/p>\n
That\u2019s especially great news as Wall Street gears up this week to attend the globalist\u00a0World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. <\/p>\n
For years Trennert has been a rare mainstream economist who has viewed the confab as a waste of time, far removed from the economic concerns of average Americans as attendees offer a preachy blend of globalism and progressive dogma.<\/p>\n
Trennert\u2019s contrarianism on \u00adDavos is now more widely accepted. <\/p>\n
No surprise that he was maybe the only economic guru who saw the populist Trump phenomenon coming, predicting back in 2015 that the New York real estate baron and reality TV star had a chance to become president because he spoke to the concerns of middle America.<\/p>\n
Since then, Trennert has been prescient on the success of Trump\u2019s tax cuts and deregulation. <\/p>\n
He also predicted the failure of Joe Biden\u2019s leftist expansion of government and obscene spending, warning that it would spark inflation that we haven\u2019t seen in decades.<\/p>\n
His level of insight is rare, and we\u2019re all better off having his voice back in the mix.<\/p>\n
\u201cThings are really looking up,\u201d he told me. <\/p>\n
\u201cLike I said, I\u2019m happy to be alive.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cancer can be a wake-up call \u2014 often to the things we \u00adhaven\u2019t fully appreciated in life. For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[288,13483,16531,3365,9,11,10,16371,3417],"class_list":["post-103816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-business","tag-cancer","tag-economics","tag-economy","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-scott-bessent","tag-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Jason Trennert, 57, is battling cancer.<\/p>\n