Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Charles Evans said Tuesday that aggressive central bank rate rises are needed to get inflation back under control.

“Inflation is clearly much too high and monetary policy must be repositioned to address this,” Mr. Evans said in a speech in New York.

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