{
  "id": 8219427,
  "title": "Bank of Japan rate hike exposes cracks in Bessent’s facade",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/bank-of-japan-rate-hike-exposes-cracks-in-bessents-facade",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-18T09:14:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/bank-of-japan-rate-hike-exposes-cracks-in-bessents-facade/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "TOKYO – Two words sprang to mind when the Bank of Japan lifted its policy rate to a 31-year high of 1.25% on Friday: Scott Bessent. No, the US Treasury secretary didn’t cause the 25-basis-point increase announced by Governor Kazuo Ueda. The BOJ was responding to a far more pressing reality: inflation continues to outpace […] The post Bank of Japan rate hike exposes cracks in Bessent’s facade…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}