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Fed announces interest rates increase

The Federal Reserve has announced it’s raising interest rates by three-quarters of a percent — just the latest increase as it tries to apply the brakes to inflation.

Mike Regan, senior editor for Bloomberg News, joins us.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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