{"id":105652,"date":"2026-06-18T12:08:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=105652"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:08:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T12:08:40","slug":"kevin-warsh-held-rates-and-didnt-give-much-guidance-is-that-bad-for-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=105652","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Warsh Held Rates And Didn&#8217;t Give Much Guidance: Is That Bad for Bitcoin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Kevin Warsh<\/strong> announced the Fed\u2019s decision to hold rates steady at his first FOMC meeting Wednesday and deliberately avoided forward guidance, leaving markets to price in a rate hike by year-end as <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) faces a fresh headwind.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Warsh Killed Forward Guidance and Nine Committee Members Want a Rate Hike<\/h3>\n<p>The FOMC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zKPohkQdq_Q\">statement<\/a> under Warsh ran barely half a page compared to the page-and-a-half releases under <strong>Jerome Powell<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Warsh did not add his own position to the dot plot. Nine committee members already project a rate hike before year-end, and the CME FedWatch tool shows markets pricing only a 15% chance that rates stay flat through December.<\/p>\n<p>Analyst <strong>Benjamin Cowen<\/strong> argued Wednesday that the pricing-in of a rate hike is itself the headwind, regardless of whether one actually happens.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin depends on looser monetary policy to outperform, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/06\/53271428\/kevin-warsh-held-rates-and-didnt-give-much-guidance-is-that-bad-for-bitcoin?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Kevin\" warsh held rates and didn give much guidance: is that bad for bitcoin>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Warsh announced the Fed\u2019s decision to hold rates steady at his first FOMC meeting Wednesday and deliberately avoided forward guidance, leaving markets to price in a rate hike by year-end as Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) faces a fresh headwind. Warsh Killed Forward Guidance and Nine Committee Members Want a Rate Hike The FOMC statement under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-105652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=105652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=105652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=105652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=105652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}