{"id":16106,"date":"2025-03-04T15:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16106"},"modified":"2025-03-04T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T15:17:30","slug":"u-s-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-signals-commitment-to-lower-interest-rates-in-2025-as-bitcoin-consolidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=16106","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Signals Commitment To Lower Interest Rates In 2025 As Bitcoin Consolidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary <strong>Scott Bessent<\/strong> on Tuesday emphasized a firm commitment to reducing interest rates as a cornerstone of the Trump administration&#8217;s economic strategy and outlined how lowering rates would alleviate financial pressures on American households and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/etfs\/broad-u-s-equity-etfs\/25\/02\/43955914\/market-could-enter-a-real-correction-expert-warns\">stimulate economic growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong>In an <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DegenerateNews\/status\/1896905954668732586\">interview<\/a> with Fox News on Tuesday, he said doing so would be considered one of the <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> administration&#8217;s early achievements, even as the president finishes 7 weeks of his second term.<\/p>\n<p>Bessent highlighted the recent decline in mortgage rates since Trump&#8217;s election and inauguration as evidence of market confidence in the administration&#8217;s policies. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re set on bringing interest rates down, and I think that&#8217;s one of the great accomplishments so far,&#8221; he stated, noting that the drop in the 10-year Treasury bond yield and the narrowing spread between it and mortgage rates reflect anticipated bank deregulation efforts. <\/p>\n<p>This reduction, he explained, extends beyond mortgages to impact credit card and auto loan rates, offering relief to the bottom &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/03\/44110636\/u-s-treasury-secretary-scott-bessent-signals-commitment-to-lower-interest-rates-in-2025-as\" alt=\"U.S.\" treasury secretary scott bessent signals commitment to lower interest rates in as bitcoin consolidates>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday emphasized a firm commitment to reducing interest rates as a cornerstone of the Trump administration&#8217;s economic strategy and outlined how lowering rates would alleviate financial pressures on American households and stimulate economic growth. What Happened: In an interview with Fox News on Tuesday, he said doing so would [&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-16106","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\/16106","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=16106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}