Trump’s bid to take down the 10-year yield
Marketplace All-in-One
Marketplace
4.5 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says President Trump’s strategies of “energy dominance, deregulation and non-inflationary growth,” will bring down bond yields even if the Federal Reserve doesn’t cut interest rates. Will it work? Experts are skeptical. Also in this episode: Disney tries “skinny” streaming bundles, the women behind one of LA’s few lesbian bars talk strategy for reopening after the fires and small businesses show us how they’re increasing productivity.
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| 0:58.5 | Interest rates, but not the Federal Reserve kind. |
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| 1:17.5 | Thank you. This is Marketplace. In Los Angeles, I'm Kyle Rizzell. |
| 1:19.9 | It is Thursday today, the 6th of February. |
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| 1:25.1 | We begin today by flipping through the well-used folder that |
| 1:29.6 | we keep around here labeled, sure, you can try to fight the market. Our protagonist at this time |
| 1:37.5 | is Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who told reporters this week the Trump administration |
| 1:41.9 | isn't really so much focused on the Federal Reserve and how and whether it's going to cut interest rates. But rather, the White House is |
| 1:50.2 | just going to work on bringing bond yields down, specifically the yield on the tenure treasury |
| 1:55.4 | note. Marketplace's Supreme Beneshore gets us going with why the administration might want to |
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