President-elect Donald Trump named hedge fund mogul Scott Bessent as the next Treasury secretary on Friday, ending a rough-and-tumble race that saw fierce jockeying among power players across Wall Street. “I am most pleased to nominate Scott Bessent to serve as the 79th Secretary of the Treasury of the United States,” Trump wrote in his announcement, posted … Read more
A video clip of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition co-chair adamantly denying the possibility of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. leading the Department of Health and Human Services has gone viral following Trump’s nomination of Kennedy to the role Thursday. In the resurfaced clip, transition co-chair Howard Lutnick spars with CNN’s The Source host Kaitlan Collins over … Read more
A top lawyer on Wall Street known for his work on leveraged buyouts is being floated as a possible candidate to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission for the Trump administration, The Post has learned. Richard Farley — a partner at New York white-shoe law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel who is chairman of … Read more
Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images The man heading … Read more
