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The Saturday Wrap - Wall Street and London Sow Panic—But Scott Bessent's Secret Plan Is Crushing Them - August 22, 2026
A manufactured “debt bomb” panic is the next play against Trump before the midterms. Barbara Boyd unpacks Scott Bessent’s Hamiltonian plan—sovereign credit for production, not speculation—and why Wall Street and London can’t even comprehend it.
As headlines warn of a $40 trillion U.S. debt and a “bond market explosion,” Barbara Boyd argues a manufactured financial panic is being used to attack President Trump ahead of the midterms. She spotlights Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s “discreet” plan—echoed by Vice President JD Vance—to get economic growth to outpace debt by directing credit into productive investment rather than speculation or consumer handouts. Boyd frames the approach as an updated Alexander Hamilton model: sovereign credit for infrastructure, technology, and industry to expand real output and contain inflation, while curbing Wall Street and Fed-driven speculation. She cites Bessent’s focus on domestic production and supply chains and highlights executive-order priorities including advanced manufacturing, nuclear and fusion power, a Moon colony by 2028, and breakthrough science. The episode also features Vance’s critique of free-trade policies, “deaths of despair,” and a $1B Cleveland-Cliffs investment in Middletown, Ohio.
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Treasury hit Bank of America with $1.2 billion in penalties for money laundering failures. Susan Kokinda traces the bank from Countrywide and the 1980s debt crisis to King Charles’ green finance club, and Bessent’s challenge to the IMF.
Trump's strategy goes far beyond Ukraine. Mike Steger examines how a sweeping geopolitical realignment could end a century of conflict in Europe and usher in a new era of Western civilization.
President Trump says he knows how the Ukraine war began and will release the details. Barbara Boyd explains why that threatens the Deep State, and why Europe and Canada are marching toward suicide with Zelensky.
Are we fighting the wrong war? Mike Steger examines Trump, Washington, Hamilton, and why leadership, national purpose, and the American System matter heading into the 2026 midterms.