{"id":76816,"date":"2026-07-31T20:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/bessent-to-do-list-shows-proposal-for-us-to-buy-5bn-10bn-of-japanese-yen\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:55:19","slug":"bessent-to-do-list-shows-proposal-for-us-to-buy-5bn-10bn-of-japanese-yen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/bessent-to-do-list-shows-proposal-for-us-to-buy-5bn-10bn-of-japanese-yen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bessent \u2018to-do\u2019 list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury secretary\u2019s notepad, photographed by Reuters on Friday morning, prompts questions over US plans<\/p>\n<p>During a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent carelessly revealed plans for the US to buy $5bn-$10bn \u2060in Japanese yen in a scribbled \u201cto do\u201d list left visible to a Reuters photographer.<\/p>\n<p>The image, taken over Bessent\u2019s shoulder during a portion of the meeting open to journalists, showed a Camp David notepad with the underscored words \u201cTo Do\u201d followed by \u201cBuy Japanese Yen (JPY) $5-10 bil\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/31\/scott-bessent-japanese-yen\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury secretary\u2019s notepad, photographed by Reuters on Friday morning, prompts questions over US plans During a cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday, the US treasury secretary Scott Bessent carelessly revealed plans for the US to buy $5bn-$10bn \u2060in Japanese yen in a scribbled \u201cto do\u201d list left visible to a Reuters photographer. The image, &#8230; <a title=\"Bessent \u2018to-do\u2019 list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/31\/bessent-to-do-list-shows-proposal-for-us-to-buy-5bn-10bn-of-japanese-yen\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bessent \u2018to-do\u2019 list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}