{"id":20668,"date":"2025-04-04T18:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20668"},"modified":"2025-04-04T18:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T18:01:31","slug":"donald-trump-says-cut-interest-rates-jerome-but-polymarket-traders-dont-see-it-happening-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=20668","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump Says &#8216;Cut Interest Rates Jerome&#8217;, But Polymarket Traders Don&#8217;t See It Happening In May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> publicly urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, but prediction market data shows that bettors remain skeptical the central bank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/government\/regulations\/25\/03\/44364688\/feds-march-meeting-expected-to-signal-no-hurry-on-rate-cuts-as-powell-likely-to-tread-carefully\">will act in May<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Happened: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/polymarket.com\/event\/fed-decision-in-may-2025\">According <\/a>to decentralized forecasting platform <strong>Polymarket<\/strong>, 72% of market participants believe the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady at its next meeting on May 7, with only 24% pricing in a 25 basis point cut, and a mere 2.7% expecting a deeper 50+ bps reduction.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\">post <\/a>on Truth Social on Friday, the former president pressed Fed Chair<strong> Jerome Powell<\/strong> to act, writing, &#8220;This would be a PERFECT time for Fed Chairman Jerome Powell to cut Interest Rates\u2026 CUT INTEREST RATES, JEROME, AND STOP PLAYING POLITICS!&#8221; Trump cited lower inflation, falling energy prices, and stronger employment as justification for immediate easing.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Fed appears in no rush to &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/markets\/cryptocurrency\/25\/04\/%252Ftrump-powell-rate-cut-polymarket\" alt=\"Donald\" trump says interest rates jerome but polymarket traders don see it happening in may>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump publicly urged the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, but prediction market data shows that bettors remain skeptical the central bank will act in May. What Happened: According to decentralized forecasting platform Polymarket, 72% of market participants believe the Federal Reserve will hold rates steady at its next meeting on May 7, [&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-20668","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\/20668","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=20668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}