{"id":38218,"date":"2026-08-29T21:37:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/ghalibaf-calls-u-s-treasury-secretary-a-big-liar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T21:37:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T18:07:33","slug":"ghalibaf-calls-u-s-treasury-secretary-a-big-liar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/ghalibaf-calls-u-s-treasury-secretary-a-big-liar\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghalibaf calls U.S. Treasury secretary a big liar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/5293076.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Responding to claims made by Bessent regarding the U.S. guiding millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Ghalibaf reposted an article by Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman titled \u201cScott Bessent Fails to Gaslight the Market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the piece, Krugman sharply criticizes the Treasury Secretary\u2019s market management and policy credibility.<\/p>\n<p>Ghalibaf mocked Bessent\u2019s reference to \u201c130 million barrels,\u201d countering with alternative \u201c130\u201d figures: \u201cFor real 130s, tell your staffer to pull Moody\u2019s showing $130+ billion in war costs, and ask another how much Jane Street burned north of $130 million shorting oil for you in just one futures roll,\u201d Ghalibaf wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded his post by taking aim at U.S. sovereign debt markets, writing: \u201cLiar liar yields on fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247312\/Ghalibaf-calls-U-S-Treasury-secretary-a-big-liar\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Responding to claims made by Bessent regarding the U.S. guiding millions of barrels of oil through the Strait of Hormuz, Ghalibaf reposted an article by Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman titled \u201cScott Bessent Fails to Gaslight the Market.\u201d In the piece, Krugman sharply criticizes the Treasury Secretary\u2019s market management and policy credibility. Ghalibaf mocked Bessent\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}