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News articleYahoo Finance· February 2, 2026

Kevin Warsh’s Fed Will End the War on Main Street and Trucking

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Kevin Warsh’s Fed Will End the War on Main Street and Trucking Kevin Warsh doesn’t believe the Federal Reserve should sacrifice Main Street to save Wall Street…
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  • For the first time in 26 years, the United States produced more steel than Japan

    80% confidence
  • Money on Wall Street is too easy, and credit on Main Street is too tight

    80% confidence
  • The Fed has effectively been implementing fiscal policy by picking winners and losers in the economy, with Wall Street consistently winning and Main Street consistently losing

    80% confidence
  • The Fed's bloated balance sheet created conditions where big institutional players could access cheap money while small businesses and working Americans faced the squeeze

    80% confidence
  • Many carriers were operating every mile at a loss

    80% confidence
  • That scarring from the past few years is going to prevent banks and entrepreneurs and fleet executives from expansion

    80% confidence
  • If you announce good news, that means they're going to raise interest rates because they want to kill it

    80% confidence
  • Market still has nearly 86,000 more for-hire trucking firms than it did before the pandemic, a 33% increase in carrier population

    80% confidence
  • Fed should shrink its balance sheet and lower interest rates to support households and small and medium-sized businesses

    80% confidence
  • High mortgage rates restrain construction activity

    80% confidence
  • Fed track record under Powell is one of unwise choices

    80% confidence
  • Inflation is caused when government spends too much and prints too much

    80% confidence
  • For every positive panelist comment about new orders, 1.3 comments indicated concern about near-term demand, driven by tariff costs and other uncertainties

    80% confidence

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