{"id":802787,"date":"2026-08-04T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802787\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T21:24:10","slug":"scott-bessent-explains-why-he-helped-japan-strengthen-the-yen-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/802787\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen &#8211; WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi-gFBVV95cUxNb2JGMDhLeFp6VWdZbHVCVnc2cE1TMzNYZlJCRXU2ZkQ5RlVxMS13RDE0ZTNjTEpZWmRBT0ZvbzY5eVVYWmI4OUpjSFJ1bFFTOHNIZl9YU3lIQmQ0dXZNbU9hUk85MlljNTM3NGpPSEJEWWNxNmE3c3FFSGRVR1pMLTgtZjNhNEtIS25IeWNjajZaa0Z4aHloUnRWQ1ZnT1lDcGt1TDVWY2tKUmNqcHJtc01UcDRsb00zZURSRzNhQWtvYjRRREEzWEo4WDlWenpMQnBLUTVaLVB3S2RNc2tpeGE0T1lFS0VmYWNkNUVqNmhYYUEySldqLXBn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WSJ<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTE9Fc2JJTlF4eE93aGtGYlZLUjJiUEhuV20wcUEwUzVYcHJURE9fdnl3SHBtSVloQU9Yd01xMVc3R2dzV2V1LXpGMS1TbE54STlzUVZDbkVqUlBobzNuV0VRb29qZ1ZDZktaeEthbFhLazgyZzlqQWpDbWxyTklibE0?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Here\u2019s Why the US Is Helping Prop Up the Japanese Yen<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;nytimes.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMilwFBVV95cUxPal9sTlNaN1ZXd3AxME10V0pPVkFLSjFZeERSb3RualJ5TEV6NUVMX2JVY3FBWGN4UUVha0laRUUtdWtKenhsaDhnaTdtdlF6ZGV6VWhzbm9BYlEwcHpBWk5jZzE2QUp6SElhTzBxWGRaQkV2cTBZRkZDQm9YTDNCS2M2Y21odzYxamhUOTJkdzhVZTZVZGhR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Scott Bessent is using moves from his hedge fund days to prop up Japan&#8217;s yen\u2014and America&#8217;s $40 trillion national debt<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Fortune<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMisgFBVV95cUxQblVZczZKV09tZld5VFdvdHNqVlVWVWJsNTVSOGVtNXJYTmt2VDFGT09oU0JLanJtSGt3MHN6NktoMHhZU05ESmNUbDlEYTdPRE9SNDg5R29TS1YyUHp4eHpvZEkwdnNWZlBfQ1BKTi0wcTNRTnE5dUozeGcyV2hiSWZiOC1NSDNjWkNWNXFyZlY3RjNoUnR2dmxhU1YxZ2tHZG1zVzlrem5ialY1WWluM0xB?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bessent Says Yen Level Problem for Japan, Other Currencies<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Bloomberg.com<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMia0FVX3lxTE1XMVMyZ0FST1BxZGNEcVU0aHRCUV9DaTJvMlYteG1MWWtKVnF1MUU2SU5CQjdkSkdXNXBCVGZ0MzRadUZyY1RCSFowazRMN2xZYnRyT3RlVjQ1ME1kcVN6TmIzTmpudzRlcWRR?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The message beneath the yen intervention<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Axios<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Bessent Explains Why He Helped Japan Strengthen the Yen&nbsp;&nbsp;WSJHere\u2019s Why the US Is Helping Prop Up the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":740090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-802787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/740090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}