Fed’s Evans: US Inflation Extremely High, Rates Hikes Needed

Fed’s Evans: US Inflation Extremely High, Rates Hikes Needed
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank President Charles Evans looks on during the Global Interdependence Center Members Delegation Event in Mexico City, Mexico, on Feb. 27, 2020. Edgard Garrido/Reuters
|Updated:

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans on Wednesday said “extremely” high inflation poses “quite a risk” to economic growth, and the U.S. central bank needs to start raising rates to address it.

“We are going to get going,” on raising rates over the next several meetings, going carefully at first, but raising them faster if the inflation outlook worsens, Evans told the Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Rotary Club Foundation.