Larry Kudlow and Scott Bessent: We Are in An Economic Boom Not Seen in DecadesMatt Mercer 1 Sep 2026
Fox Business host Larry Kudlow hosted a fireside chat with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on day two of the G20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina on Tuesday. Kudlow led off with an extended riff about how the main story should be economic boom not seen in decades and praised Bessent as, “the best, most important wartime treasury secretary since World War II.”
“This boom in large measure is because of President Trump’s policies: The One Big Beautiful Bill, 100 percent expensing, manufacturing growth, employment growth, stock market rally, and profits,” Kudlow said. He also admonished the establishment media in the room which “doesn’t like to talk about the successes of the American economy.”
Bessent built on Kudlow’s opening comments, telling those at the event pavilion the G20 is a growth story.
“Everyone is saying growth is better than they thought it would have been,” Bessent said of comments made in plenary sessions as well as bilateral meetings taking place throughout the day.
He continued: “We are the AI superpower and we are pulling away in global compute. We have the best-performing bond market among major countries in the world. We have regulatory certainty, tax certainty, energy certainty. The U.S. is the world’s energy superpower.”
Bessent cited his hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, telling the crowd the precondition for the capital expenditures boom was construction jobs. He added that he believes in data centers as well, calling them great expansion projects.
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