A Federal Reserve official suggested he would support raising interest rates by another 0.75-percentage point later this month to combat inflation, the latest policy maker to do so.

Officials have been debating whether to raise rates by 0.5 point and 0.75 point at their coming Sept. 20-21 policy meeting, but they haven’t pushed back against market expectations of the bigger move.

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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