bessent *interned* with non aligned (claims himself to be austrian school, most parallel) financier billionaire jim rogers. upon graduation he worked several years at brown brothers harriman, one of the blueblood wall street investment banks. bessent joined soros fund management (sfm) in 1991 and left there in 2000 to found his own hedge fund which closed in 2005. from 2011-2015 he was chief investment officer at (again) sfm, and then left to form his own new investment firm key square group. like all of the top hedge funders that manage hundreds of billions of dollars, key square (and other similar firms in its league) use macroeconomics, global geopolitics and financial mathematics to calculate, forecast and predict asset market movements in the large scale and medium to long term. bessent donated to al gore, hillary clinton and barack obama in past campaigns. from 2006 to 2011 bessent was an adjunct professor of economics at his alma mater yale.
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