Scott Bessent knows how to throw a punch to keep the global economy afloat

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is at least 6 feet, 4 inches tall and, at age 63, technically only a few years from retirement age. But next to Art Laffer, the octogenarian free-market economist who clocks in at 5 1/2 feet, Bessent looks like a colossus.