Economic and Policy Perspectives with Dan Varroney | October 27, 2026
Paying today’s fuel bill can put tomorrow’s cost savings out of reach.
Richmond Fed trucking contacts reported that expensive diesel led some carriers to postpone buying more fuel-efficient trucks. Money intended to improve the business was needed to keep it running.
Another rate increase could make those trucks harder to finance and push the savings further away. Inflation must come down, but the Fed needs to explain what making that investment more expensive would accomplish.
In this one-minute video, I explain why my Washington Examiner op-ed calls for holding rates steady while assessing September’s increase.
What investment would most improve your business’s operating costs, and what is keeping it on hold? I would welcome your perspective.
Read “The Fed thinks it’s fighting inflation. It’s starving the cure” in the Washington Examiner, published October 25, 2026.
Music: “News Theme” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 4.0. Edited excerpts with volume adjustment and fades.