{"id":47771,"date":"2026-09-29T18:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47771"},"modified":"2026-09-29T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T22:11:32","slug":"the-beclowning-of-scott-bessent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=47771","title":{"rendered":"The Beclowning of Scott Bessent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-beclowning-of-scott-bessent?publication_id=277517&amp;post_id=217988538&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=16ex0z\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https3A2F2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com2Fpublic2Fimages2F6bb77297-cc47-404f-8219-50cb9c1348f6_1458x976.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:337px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another Trump enabler pays the price<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/paulkrugman.substack.com\/p\/the-beclowning-of-scott-bessent\">The Beclowning of Scott Bessent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">interesting&#8230; the graph at the right (of supertanker lease\/rent\/hire rates matches what <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=4073#sal-shipping\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sal<\/a> sez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span class=\"collapseomatic \" id=\"id6ad3b541e158e\"  tabindex=\"0\" title=\"meta:\"    >meta:<\/span><div id=\"target-id6ad3b541e158e\" class=\"collapseomatic_content \"> note how instead of link to Sal&#8217;s youtube channel, I link to my post on &#8220;YouTubes I Like&#8230;&#8221;, jumpiong to the specific link; this is handiest for reader, but also show off my post and hopefully lets reader see something else i find worthwhile.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Trump enabler pays the price Source: The Beclowning of Scott Bessent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47771"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47775,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47771\/revisions\/47775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}