Scott Bessent, the founder and CEO of Key Square Group, a global macro investment firm, told Breitbart News Saturday that Vice President Kamala Harris is an “economic illiterate” who would crash the economy if elected president.
Bessent spoke to Breitbart News Saturday host Matthew Boyle as Democrat presidential nominee Harris delivered an economic program on Friday, promising to institute price controls to combat inflation in rent and groceries.
Bessent said, “It is clear that she is an economic illiterate. She said price ‘gauging’ not ‘gouging’ and she’s just reading some talking points.”
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Bessent noted that the Washington Post‘s editorial board slammed Harris’s economic agenda, the Post wrote:
So it’s a real political issue for Ms. Harris. One way to handle it might be to level with voters, telling them that inflation spiked in…
